Copyright 2005 Bartek Kostrzewa

    gimmage 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., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301
    USA



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GIMMAGE - THE GTKMM IMAGE VIEWER
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Contents of this file:

	REQUIREMENTS
	INSTALLATION
	DEBUGGING VERSION
	UNINSTALLATION	
	USER GUIDE


If you happen to create a binary package of this software I would be very
happy if you could send it to me so that I could distribute it. Thank you
very much!


REQUIREMENTS
------------
 	
	gtkmm and its dependencies
	
	curl / libcurl (http://curl.haxx.se - most probably included 
	with your distribution)
	
	libmagic and its dependencies
	
	gettext / libintl
	
	of course you will need the *-dev packages for compiling!


INSTALLATION
------------

Execute ./configure --prefix=YOURPREFIX
setting YOURPREFIX to your preffered prefix (e.g. /usr or /usr/local .. )

In the extraction directory do:
	make

and then as root:
	make install

this will install gimmage to /usr/local/bin/gimmage and the icons to
/usr/local/share/gimmage/icons (or the prefix you selected)

If you want to try gimmage out before installing, just run it from the
extraction directory:
	src/gimmage


DEBUGGING VERSION
-----------------

Further, for the debugging version:
	./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-debug
	make	

and as root:
	make install 

Note: the debugging version is slow and spouts out a lot of text.


UNINSTALLATION
--------------

to uninstall, do:

	make uninstall

in the extraction directory as root


USERGUIDE
---------

when you start gimmage with * as an argument it will scan the current 
working directory and all subdirectories to one level and try to display 
all files therein (if they appear to be supported images)

starting gimmage with a directory as its argument will make it enter the
directory and scan it for displayable images

in your filemanager you can configure gimmage to be an application with
which to open image files and/or directories

by clicking the "Show File Browser" button on the right you can select and
drag directories and images into the image display area to have them opened
and displayed. Single images can also be double-clicked, which will cause
the directory current directory to be searched for other images and the
currently selected image to be displayed.

Keyboard shortcuts:

Next Image 		Space
Previous Image		Backspace
Zoom In			Plus (Numpad or otherwise)
Zoom Out		Minus (Numpad or otherwise)
Zoom to Original Size	1
Rotate Clockwise	c
Rotate Anticlockwise	a
Save			s
Open Filechooser	f
Quit			Escape


Thanks for trying gimmage.

-Bartek  --  zoombat |AT| runbox |DOT| com