(Monday, Mar 20 2000)

*** INTRODUCTION

This is the readme for Fidelio, a Hotline client for Linux, but
it should compile everywhere GNOME can be compiled.
If you don't know what hotline is, I can't help you... you might want
to check out
  * http://www.BigRedH.com

Fidelio is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
See the file COPYING and the section COPYRIGHT in this document for details.

Fidelio is hosted on SourceForge (http://www.sourceforge.net). You can find
the fidelio's SourceForge pages at http://fidelio.sourceforge.net 

*** FEATURES

Currently implemented:
  * Userlist
  * News v1.2 (flat news)
  * News v1.5+ (threaded news)
  * File Transfers
  * Public Chat
  * Private Messages
  * Bookmarks (tree-like. will import ghx's bookmark list)
  * Trackers
  * Icons in Userlist (see ICONS below)
  * Sounds for events.

Currently unimplemented, but targeted for 1.0:
  * Private chat
  * File Properties.

Currently unimplemented, unknown target date.
(if you want to contribute, please do send patches :) )
  * User Editing.
  * 1.5 News Administration.
  * misc admin-side stuff.

*** REQUIREMENTS

pthreads, gtk+glib 1.2.x, gnome-libs 1.0.x, gnome-xml >= 1.8.7
A System that packs structure members to 4-byte-boundaries... (don't ask...)
(Some systems will require an updated libxml)

This code is not tested on systems with 64-bit ints. On such systems
where integer alignment happens on mutiples of 8, fidelio will *not* run.
However, I would be interested to hear about it...

*** SERVERS

The original hotline server is at: (use "Connect...")
  hlserver.com 
Misc trackers are at: (use Trackers->New)
  tracked.group.org
  tracked.mainecyber.com
And of course:
  http://www.tracker-tracker.com/

*** ICONS 

Fidelio supports (to some good extent) icons. To use them
a) get an icon set from ftp://fidelio.sourceforge.net/
b) put it somewhere and tell fidelio about it.
   File->Preferences->Userlist->Icons...
c) restart fidelio
d) now, use File->Preferences->User Icon->Load Icons
e) wait
f) wait (some X servers crash here ....)
g) pick an icon from the lists.
   Note that some hotline clients have problems with large icons....

Enjoy,
Bassoukos Tassos <abas@aix.meng.auth.gr>

*** COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1999,2000 Bassoukos Tassos <abas@aix.meng.auth.gr>

Please see the file COPYING for the licensing terms.
*** THIS PROGRAM COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. ***
Please see the file COPYING for the licensing terms.
