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Nimf Version : %%VERSION Author : Ferry Boender <%%EMAIL> (please do not publish this email address) License : General Public License homepage : %%HOMEPAGE Nimf is a two (or more) panel filemanager ala Norton Commander for X, programmed in C using the Gtk toolkit. It's main goal will be to create a full featured file manager which adheres to 'The law of least astonishment'. Table of contents 1. About Nimf 2. Current features 3. Project goals 4. Installation 4.1. Requirements 4.2. Compiling 4.3. Configuring 5. Feedback / Contributing. 5.1. Credits 6. Legal stuff 7. Author 1. About Nimf Nimf is a two (or more) panel filemanager like Norton Commander and Midnight Commander. It runs in X for it is programmed in C using Gtk. It does not require Gnome or anything other than the Gtk developement headers. By default it has the same keybindings as Norton Commander has (i.e. F5 = Copy, F7 = Create new dir, etc). One of the goals of this project is to create an easy to use filemanager, which can do the things that are hard to do at the command prompt. For a full list of (current and planned) features, see the 'Project Goals' section. This project was started for a couple of different reasons. First of all, it was started due to me being unsatisfied with just about ALL filemanagers for Linux. They are either too slow, too huge, too good-looking (which can become quite irritating), don't work well with the keyboard, are hard to use, etc. The best filemanager yet is, imho, emelfm. But even emelfm has some irritations. I could have just taken the emelfm source, and modified it to suit my needs ofcourse. But another reason for starting this project is because I wanted to program something in C using Gtk, and a filemanager seemed like I nice idea. As many programmers, I program for fun. Nimf has been (and still is) fun to work on. 2. Current features. Nimf currently includes these features: * Threaded execution of file operations. * Dual panel file operations. Two panels which allow you to copy, move, delete, view files, change rights, change ownership and perform other basic file operations on files. For a lot of operations confirmation (and destination) dialogs are presented, so you can i.e. copy the current selection of files to each dir you enter. Most file-oriented operations (like copy, etc) are done in threads, so you can continue using the program while the operation is being performed. * Extention based executing You can configure Nimf, so it will allow you to execute programs based on the extention of the file currently under the cursor. * Jump search By typing a (partial) filename, you can jump to the file in the current panel. * Bookmarks When pressing the 'B' button in the interface, the current directory will be added to the bookmarks. If it already was bookmarked, it will be removed. * Configuration editors for Actions, Misc ('main') and Keys configuration options. 3. Project goals Basic project goals: * Full keyboard support. Everything should be easily accessible from the keyboard * Configurability Many useless configurable options! Some usefull too. * Fast, lightweight Nimf will be fast (both in start up and in operations) and small with few dependencies * Adhere to 'The law of least astonishment' If you're a Norton Commander or Midnight Commander user, and you go 'huh?' with Nimf, it'll need to be fixed. * Extended Nimf will include many usefull options to ease working with it and help manage your files. I'm thinking along the lines of auto-mounting, file splitting, encryption of files, virtual filesystem (accessing tar.gz files), etc. Extended project goals (features): * Virtual File System Access from Nimf to packaged files (.zip, .tar.gz, .deb, etc), FTP, Http, etc. * File launching Advanced and easy to set up file lauching abilities (i.e. viewing images, running executables, etc) by extention. * Quick operations Operations on files which are hard to do from the commandline, like mass-renaming of files, recursive chmodding and chowning, etc * Statistics Quickly be able to bring up statistics on free disk space, space occupied by (selections of) files, quota viewing, etc * Tree view The ability to bring up a panel with a tree, or make on of the panels contain a tree, which can be used to quickly change directories, copy/move/delete stuff, etc. 4. Installation 4.1. Requirements In order to compile Nimf, you will need: * A c compiler (Nimf was developed with gcc) * Gtk 1.2+ (developement headers) * Glib (Gtk depends on it) (Debian: libgtk1.2-dev package will do the trick.) In order to run Nimf, you will need: * Gtk 1.2+ 4.2. Compiling To compile Nimf, simply run 'make' in the Nimf source directory. Please report any errors you get to me. 4.3. Configuring Since version 0.0.18, Nimf has a GUI for the settings. Misc, keys and actions no longer have to be edited manually using textfiles. Some changes had to be made to the configuration files, therefor you will not be able to keep your old configartion files. (also see RELEASENOTES) When configuring commands which will be run (like the Editor and actions), you should know that %s will be substituted for the currently selected file in the current panel. It's also a good idea to enclose the %s with double quotes ("%s"), because the command will be run through a shell, and that will clash with any spaces or weird chars in the filename. When starting nimf for the first time, a default configuration will be saved in your home directory under the .nimf/ dir. 5. Feedback / Contributing. Feedback is always appreciated. At this moment the most welcome feedback is: * Bug reports * Installation problems * Code peer reviews (design flaws, code enhancements, etc) You can send it to my email address (see the 'Author' section). At this moment I'm less interested in feature requests, because the project is still in a very early stage. But if you must, you can still send it to me. If you are thinking about contributing code to this project, please keep the following in mind: * Send in patches, created with the appropriate tools (diff). * Maintain the current code layout/style, eventhough it's crappy. * Take notice of the projectgoals. Your patch should add features which are planned in the goals, or are at least somewhat along the same lines. So if you send in a patch which will make Nimf into a 3D file manager, I'll probably reject the patch. Bug-fixing patches are almost always welcome. I may reject patches because they do not conform with the 'rules' state, or for any other reason that I see fit. Please do not be insulted when I reject your patch. I will almost always tell you the reason why it was rejected. If you think about contributing code to Nimf, you might first want to send me an email to see if I have any use for what you are thinking of. Patches that do not fit in my project goals for Nimf (and may still be usefull for others) will be provided in the source package if I see fit. 5.1. Credits I'd like to thank the following people for their help on Nimf: Jaap jan "Aromog" Kerkmeester : Testing, various suggestions. Ruben "_Cyclops_" d'Arco : Testing, various suggestions. 6. Legal stuff Nimf is Copyright by Ferry Boender, licensed under the General Public License (GPL) Copyright (C), 2002 by Ferry Boender This program 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. 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. 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., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. For more information, see the COPYING file supplied with this program. 7. Author Nimf created by: Ferry Boender <%%EMAIL> (Please do not publish this email address) Homepage: %%HOMEPAGE (for address information, please email me. I can't just put my home address on the internet now, can I?)
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