2012-03-18 Emil Brink gentoo v0.19.13 INTRODUCTION gentoo is a graphical file management program, written from scratch in C. It uses the GTK+ toolkit for its interface. gentoo is developed and tested primarily under Linux, but is known to compile and work on many other Unix-like operating systems as well. One of the design goals with gentoo has been to provide extensive customization and configuration abilities, and to do so from an integrated, graphic, interface. The user should not have to edit the configuration file directly "by hand", and especially not have to restart the program for changes to take effect. gentoo features a fairly complex and powerful system for file type recognition, coupled to an object-oriented style system, which together give you a lot of control over how files of different types are displayed and acted upon. LICENSING This software is Copyright (c) 1998-2010 by Emil Brink. You are free to distribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. You should have received a copy of this license together with the software (in a file called COPYING). If not, and you have web access, check <http://www.gnu.org/>. It is important to realize that this software comes without ANY form of warranty. THE AUTHOR gentoo was written by Emil Brink. It is my first program to use GTK+, my first major Linux application, and my first program released in source form under the GPL, but it's absolutely _not_ my first program. ;^) Work on gentoo started in May 1998, when I decided it would be fun to learn the GTK+ interface toolkit. The first actual release of gentoo was called version 0.9.0, and made its public appearance back in September 1998. Please send questions, answers, bug reports, praise (?) and critique straight to <emil@obsession.se>. I am listening. Also, please do try to include the word "gentoo" in the subject of your e-mail, to help me manage my e-mail. Thank you. RELEASE NOTES This is a primarily a bug-fix release. There was a bug preventing the Information window from responding properly to the close button. Also, the Move command's internals have been rewritten to be a bit more clever (or less dumb, maybe); now it tries doing a fast rename (for moves on the same device) before computing the size of the thing(s) to be moved. This gives a huge speed-up for deep directories. For more details, see the NEWS file as usual. FOR INTERNATIONAL USERS There have been a few new strings introduced since the last release, which means many translations are broken or at least out of date. My apologies for this. It's not possible to do coordinated translations prior to releases for gentoo, it's simply not predicatble enough when there is going to be a release to ask translators to commit. This means that the only two languages recommeded for use right now are English, which is built-in, and Swedish, which is translated by me and kept up to date. Feel free to contact the translators, or perhaps pick up the gauntlet yourself, it's not exactly hard work. FOR MORE INFORMATION... * If you are a new user, *please* read the man page. * Instructions about how to build an executable are provided in the file INSTALL, as usual. * For (sometimes very technical and code-centric) notes on exactly what's happened in this release, check out the NEWS file. I recommend reading it on each new release. * Details about gentoo's support for GUI customization through the use of GTK+ RC files are in the README.gtkrc file. * For information about known problems, quirks and general developer headaches, please see the BUGS file. To report a bug, go to: <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=406763&group_id=32880&func=browse>. * There is a TODO file, containing a few major things I have planned/want to see implemented. DOCUMENTATION The documentation that is available is incomplete and sort of out of date. I'm sorry about that. Hopefully, I will find the time and energy in the future to do a complete rewrite of the documentation, since much has changed and been added since it was written. There is a short manpage that touches the bare essentials, in "docs/gentoo.1x". Please read it. There is some reasonably modern documentation in plain text format in some files in "docs/scratch/". Read those, too. /Emil
