Tips and tricks for Gnome Commander
-----------------------------------


1. Using a nice Nautilus icon theme

The default icon theme that comes with GC lacks icons for a lot of file types 
and only looks good at icon size 16. There are other themes around though 
that are more complete and looks better in bigger sizes. 
Unscalable Gorilla by Jimmac is a good example and can be used in GC by following theese steps:

    * Download Unscalable Gorilla from http://jimmac.musichall.cz/download.php3?id=29
    * Unpack the theme to whereever you want.
    * Start GC and open the options dialog. In the Layout tab set the Theme icon directory 
      to be the folder where you extracted Unscalable Gorilla. Also change Row height 
      and Icon size to 20 or some other size that you like. When you're done also make sure 
      that the Graphical mode is set to MIME icons.
    * When you now close the options dialog the file listings should refresh and you should see 
      Unscalable Gorilla being used.
		
This guide should work for all other Nautilus icon themes as well.
		
		
2. Handling archives
		
GC still lacks built in browsing of compressed archives. However the program can be configured 
so that working with archives becomes quite practical anyway. This is how you do it:
		
    * If you don't already have the program Fileroller, download it from http://fileroller.sf.net 
      and install it.
    * Open the options dialog and go to the Programs tab. 
    * Add two favorite apps using the values shown in files create_archive.png & extract_archive.png
			    
You can now right click any file or folder and choose 'Create archive...' to compress it 
and right click compressed files and choose 'Extract archive...' to extract it.
			    
			    
3. Using removable devices
			    
If you use removable devices such as cd's, floppies and cameras a lot, you can make 
GC automatically take care of mounting them by following this guide:
			    
    * Open the options dialog and go to the Devices tab.
    * Add the devices that you are using. File mounting.png shows how I have added 
      my scsi cdrom. File dev_cd.png shows how the program looks with a few added 
      devices. In the last image circle A shows the available devices and circle B 
      shows the button to press if we want to unmount the floppy, which happened 
      to be mounted. The icons that are used for the devices in the example should be 
      available in the $(prefix)/share/pixmaps/gnome-commander/device-icons folder 
      on your computer.
				    
				    
				    
Ok, that is all for now. If you find any problems or errors in this guide 
send me an email using this address: marbj499 at student.liu.se.
