							1999-01-12
							Emil Brink

				gentoo v0.9.22

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.
	gentoo features a fairly complex and powerful file ident-
ification system, 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
gentoo is released under the GNU GPL license as free, open source
software. For details, read the COPYING file.


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
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 STATUS
Okay, there's nothing really astonishing in this release (is there
ever?). The details are as always in the FIXES file, but here are
some highlights:
	Fixed a bug in the text viewer, which would crash and die
if you closed it while the Goto window was open. Oops.
	The text viewer now knows how to Search for text, sort of.
It's probably not the most intuitive text searcher you have ever
used, but I find it works pretty well. Details in docs/scratch.
	Wrote up a man-page for gentoo! It's not even close to com-
plete, but covers some essentials. If you haven't read all through
the old material in docs/, I suggest you take a look.
	Added a couple of new options, to disable the use of various
RC files. See the man-page for details.
	Replaced the ".." label on the parent-button with a neat
little icon.


GENERAL PACKAGE 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
  what's happened in this release, check out the FIXES file.
* 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-
fore, the docs are pretty useless. ;^) The sections that are most in-
correct are those dealing with the command architecture. There is a
technical description about the architecture in docs/scratch/, the
file is named "commands2.txt", you might want to check it out.


/Emil



