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Gregory McLean ac610cb6fb Updates.
This is a very basic/rough outline of gmc documentation, feel free to add
and expand to it :)

-- Greg
1998-12-16 22:29:16 +00:00

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<book>
<bookinfo>
<title>Gnome Midnight Commander Documentation</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Gregory</firstname>
<surname>McLean</surname>
<affiliation>
<address>
<email>gregm@comstar.net</email>
</address>
</affiliation>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<copyright>
<year>1998</year>
<holder>The GNOME Project - Gregory A. McLean</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.</para>
<para>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.</para>
<para>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
MA 02111-1307 USA</para>
<para>For more details see the file COPYING that should have
been included in this distribution of the Gnome Midnight Commander.
</para>
</legalnotice>
</bookinfo>
<toc></toc>
<chapter id="intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<sect1 id="whatis">
<title>What is the Gnome Midnight Commander</title>
<para>
The Gnome Midnight Commander (gmc) is the latest incarnation of the GNU
Midnight Commander. It is a directory browser/file manager for
Unix-like operating systems.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="thisdoc">
<title>About this document</title>
<para>This document is intended to explain the Gnome specific features
of the Gnome Midnight Commander.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="features">
<title>Features of the Gnome Midnight Commander</title>
<para>List the features of gmc...</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="installing">
<title>Installation</title>
<para>In this chapter we will describe the various ways to get the
Gnome Midnight Commander installed and working on your system. Also
we will discuss how to get the latest versions.</para>
<sect1 id="latest-version">
<title>Getting the latest version</title>
<para>Where to get the latest stable version</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="source-install">
<title>Installing with the source files</title>
<para>Describe the source installation steps.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="binary-install">
<title>Installing pre-packaged binaries</title>
<para>Describe the binary install steps.</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="using-gmc">
<title>Using gmc</title>
<para>Someone write this!</para>
</chapter>
<chapter id="customizing">
<title>Customizing gmc</title>
<para>Not happy with the way gmc does things or the looks of gmc, in this
chapter we will show you all the customization options available to you.
</para>
<sect1 id="wmclass">
<title>Window Manager Classes</title>
<sect2 id="wmclass-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>This section describes the various window manager classes that have
been set on the windows and dialogs that gmc uses. It is intended to aid
you in customizing your enviornment.</para>
<para>Where possible we have provided some example window manager
configuration file snippets.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="classes">
<title>The classes</title>
<para>On all the desktop icons that gmc uses and displays the following
window manager classes have been set on them.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>gmc</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>desktop_icon</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Some window managers do not understand either the Gnome window
manager hints or the Motif window manager hints. They end up making
a terrible mess of the desktop icons. To work around this problem
you can do the following.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>FVWM and variants</para>
<para>Style "desktop_icon" MinimalDecoration, CirculateSkip</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
</chapter>
</book>