							1999-05-31
							Emil Brink

			   gentoo v0.11.7

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
This software is copyright (c) 1998-99 by Emil Brink, Obsession
Development.
	You are free to distribute this software under the terms of
the GNU General Public License. You should have received a copy of
this license together with the software (in a file called COPYING).


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 NOTES
This release is the come-back for symbolic link support, which should
make a lot of people happier. :) It is far better than the old support
ever was, and even includes a set of supporting commands to let you
create and edit symlinks in various ways. Please read "docs/scratch/
symlinks.txt" for info about this.
	Also, this release introduces a brand new (but nicely enough,
backwards compatible) file styling system. The thing with this new
system is that properties (most importantly, actions) are totally
dynamic now. Read about it in "docs/scratch/filestyles.txt".
	In addition, there have been bugfixes and general improve-
ments all over the place, just as always...


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.


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
  exactly what's happened in this release, check out the FIXES-0.11
  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 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
