Gigolo
^^^^^^


About
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Gigolo is a frontend to easily manage connections to remote filesystems using
GIO/GVfs. It allows you to quickly connect/mount a remote filesystem and manage
bookmarks of such.

GVfs is an userspace virtual filesystem and the successor of GnomeVfs but doesn't
depend on Gnome itself. It only requires a recent GLib version and a properly setup
DBus system. Then it provides almost transparent access to remote
resources like FTP or SFTP (SSH) connections, SMB (windows shares) or special resources
like the Trash (trash://), Burn (burn://) or even accessing your digital photo camera
(gphoto2://).


Requirements
============
For compiling Gigolo, you will need the GTK (>= 2.12.0) libraries
and header files. You will also need its dependency libraries and header
files, such as Pango, Cairo, Glib and ATK. All these files are available at
http://www.gtk.org.
You also need Python for the included Waf build system.

Furthermore you need, of course, a C compiler as well as the intltool package.


Installation
============
If you have all the above listed requirements installed on your system,
building the code is easy:

Run the following commands::

    $ ./waf configure
    $ ./waf build
    (maybe as root)
    % ./waf install

To get a list of available options to customize your build, enable debugging
or to use a different installation prefix, run::

    $ ./waf help


Alternative installation using autotools
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You can use the usual autotools chain to configure, compile and install
the sources by running::

    $ ./autogen.sh

in the source directory.
This is mainly intended for distro packagers and people with special needs.


Usage
=====
You can start Gigolo in the following ways:

* From the Desktop Environment menu:

  Choose in your application menu of your used Desktop Environment:
  System --> Gigolo.

* From the command line:

  To start Gigolo from a command line, type the following and press Return::

      $ gigolo

* To get a list of available command line options, run::

      $ gigolo --help


License
=======
Gigolo is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the license.
A copy of this license can be found in the file COPYING included with
the source code of this program.
The included Waf build system ("waf") is licensed under the
New BSD License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php).


Ideas, questions, patches and bug reports
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Send them to me at enrico(at)xfce(dot)org or http://bugzilla.xfce.org.