(Thursday March 1st,2001)


*** 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 (user-selectably throttled).
  * Public and Private Chat.
  * Private Messages.
  * Bookmarks (tree-like, will import ghx's bookmark list).
  * Trackers.
  * Icons in Userlist (see ICONS below)
  * Sounds for events.
  * Ignore User.

Currently unimplemented, unknown target date.
(if you want to contribute, please do send patches :) )
  * User Editing.
  * 1.5 News Administration.
  * Moving files, setting file permissions etc.


*** REQUIREMENTS

pthreads, gtk+glib 1.2.x, gnome-libs 1.2.x, libxml2 2.x
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, see the pages at
http://fidelio.sourceforge.net/icons.php


*** 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.
