							1999-11-01
							Emil Brink

			   gentoo v0.11.10

INTRODUCTION
gentoo is a file manager for Linux and compatible systems, written
from scratch in pure C. It utilises the GTK+ GUI toolkit for its
interface.
	A goal with gentoo is to let the user do all configuration
from within the program itself; there should be no need to hand-edit
configuration files and restart the program in order to customize it.
A sub-goal might be to provide a fairly high level of customization
possibilities, since that seems to be what many Linux users want in
the software they use.
	gentoo features a fairly complex and powerful file system
for file identification, coupled to a object-oriented style system,
which together give you a lot of control over how files of different
types are displayed and acted upon.


LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 1998-1999 by Emil Brink, Obsession
Development. The first public release of gentoo was called version
0.9.0, and appeared in September 1998.
	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.


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 definitely _not_ my first program.
;^) I've been hacking since the late eighties, and am currently a
computer science student at the Royal Institute of Technology ("RIoT")
here in Stockholm, Sweden.
	Please send questions, answers, bug reports, praise (?) and
critique to <emil@obsession.se>. I am listening.


RELEASE NOTES
Hm, I'm getting kind of tired of apologizing for late releases, so
this time I won't. :) Instead, I'll go straight into a short over-
view of what has changed. In general, it's not much:
* gentoo should now be a lot happier on Tru64 running on 64-bit
  Alpha hardware. You can thank Jesse Perry <jap@unx.dec.com> for
  that, since he provided the required input.
* There is a new powerful Rename command, called RenameRE. It lets
  you do pattern-based renames, e.g. rename *.txt to *.text or
  something. Try it out, it's neat! In the example config, this
  command is bound to Shift+F2, as well as the secondary function
  of the "Rename" command button (right-click it). Read the micro-
  manual in "docs/scratch/renamere.txt" -- it helps!
* Binding stuff to arrow keys now works a lot better.
* More than 20 new icons included. They're all by Johan Hanson,
  as always.
Something I have not tired of is recommending you to check out
the FIXES-0.11 file for more changes, so consider yourself reminded.


IMPORTANT NOTE
If you experience problems with shift-selecting, I recommend you
investigate what version of the GTK+ toolkit you are running. A
good way of checking this is by executing the gentoo command "About",
and read the number in the dialog that opens. Another is to find a
shell, and run the "gtk-config --version" command.
	If you're running anything previous to GTK+ 1.2.3, you
should upgrade, as GTK+ 1.2.3 seems to fix the shift-selection bug.


FOR MORE INFORMATION...
* Information about system requirements and instructions about how to
  build an executable are provided in the file INSTALL, as usual.
* For (sometimes very technical and close-to-the-source) notes on
  exactly what's happened in this release, check out the FIXES-0.11
  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 headaches,
  please see the BUGS file.


DOCUMENTATION
I originally intended to document gentoo in a very serious manner.
Unfortunately (or perhaps not), the development is far too intense
for me to have the time to keep the documentation up-to-date.
	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 them, too.


/Emil
