              GNOME Commander Version 0.9.10

              Copyright (C) 2001-2003 
              Marcus Bjurman <marbj499@student.liu.se>
              http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/gcmd/


Topics:
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1. Introduction
2. Contributing
3. Building
4. Communication
5. FAQ


1. Introduction
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GNOME Commander is a nice and fast file manager for the GNOME desktop.

Read the TODO file to see if there is some known problems with the version you are using.


2. Contributing
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If you're not an programmer but have some good ideas for stuff that you want to see in this program, check the TODO file first before sending email.

If you want to submit a patch please do so but remember the following:
  * Send an email with the patch to the developers mailing list. DO NOT SEND
    THE PATCH AS AN ATTACHMENT, instead include it as text right after the
    your description of what it does.
  * Please use the -u flag when generating the patch.
  * Write a good explanation of what the patch does.

Special note for translators:
  * Send translations as gzipped or bzipped attachments to avoid losing language
  specific characters.

					   
3. Building
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This is a list of required libraries:
	 * gnome-libs:
	   Used for the graphics of the program.

	 * GnomeVFS:
	   Used for most of the file handling. 

If you have the libraries above the "./configure; make; make install" procedure should work like a charm.

This is a strongly recommended library:
	 * FAM (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/index.html):
	   Used to monitoring file alterations, which means that when you
	   create/delete/modify a file this program gets a message from FAM so it
	   can update it's directory views. You can build this program without FAM
	   but then you'll have to prepare to do a lot of manual reloading since
	   even files that are altered with this program won't show up until you
	   manually reload.
	   Update: from 0.9.8 and on files modified within GC should update without FAM.


4. Communication
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This project has two mailing lists, one for users and one for developers.
Subscription to those mailing lists can be done at:

users: http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/gcmd-users
devel: http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/gcmd-devel

You can also find email addresses to the people who have created gnome-commander
in the AUTHORS file.


5. FAQ
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[Q1] When will GNOME Commander support browsing of compressed archives?

[A1] This will be done when GnomeVFS gets it working. All file operations are done
     using this API so it would be very impractical to implement it using some other
     library.


[Q2] Some of the keyboard shortcuts in GNOME Commander are also used by my
     window manager, can they be changed?

[A2] Not at the moment, but maybe later on.	 
