				GNOME Commander Version 1.1.5

				Copyright (C) 2001-2004 
				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
6. Known problems



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

Read the sections "FAQ" and "Known problems" to see if there are some known
problems with the version you are using. The TODO file might also contain
some clues when running into problems.

The ChangeLog contains a detailed description on what has changed. For normal
users the NEWS file might be a better place to look since it contains
change summaries between the different versions.



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.


Special note for pixel tweakers:
  * Help on the default low-res mime theme (pixmaps/mime-icons) is very welcome.  


					   
3. Building
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This is a list of required libraries:

  * libgnomeui-2:
    Used for the graphics of the program.

  * gnome-vfs-2:
    Used for most of the file handling. If gnome-vfs is built to use fam
    gnome-commander makes use of that functionality by being able to update
    its visible directories even when files are create/deleted or changed in
    other programs.



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 of 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.	 




6. Known problems
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