1. Introduction
   1.1. Project/Component Working Name:

        GNOME Commander

   1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:

        Padraig O'Briain

   1.3. Date of This Document:

        03/07/08
        
   1.3.1. Date this project was conceived:

        03/06/08

   1.4. Name of Major Document Customer(s)/Consumer(s):

        1.4.1. The PAC or CPT you expect to review your project:

                Solaris PAC

        1.4.2. The ARC(s) you expect to review your project:

                LSARC

        1.4.3. The Director/VP who is "Sponsoring" this project:

                robert.odea@sun.com

        1.4.4. The name of your business unit:

                New Solaris Group 

   1.5. Email Aliases:
        1.5.1. Responsible Manager:

                leo.binchy@sun.com

        1.5.2. Responsible Engineer:

                padraig.obriain@sun.com

        1.5.3. Marketing Manager:

                dan.roberts@sun.com

        1.5.4. Interest List:

                desktop-discuss@opensolaris.org

4. Technical Description:
    4.1. Details:

        The GNOME Commander application is a fast and powerful graphical 
        file manager for the Gnome desktop environment, it has a "two-pane" 
        interface based on the orthodox file manager (OFM) principle, in the 
        tradition of Norton and Midnight Commander.

        GNOME Commander provides the following features:

        * GTK-2 GUI with standard mouse interactions
                  
        * GNOME MIME types
                      
        * Remote connections using GnomeVFS: FTP/SFTP and SAMBA
                  
        * Right click mouse menu
                  
        * User defined context menu
                  
        * Quick device access buttons with automatic mounting and unmounting
                  
        * History of accessed locations
                  
        * Folder bookmarks
                  
        * User defined keyboard shortcuts
                  
        * Python scripting
                  
        * Plugin support
                  
        * Fast file viewer for text and images
                  
        * Meta data support for Exif, IPTC, ID3, Vorbis, FLAC, APE, OLE2 and 
          ODF tags. Exif and IPTC support is provided by libexiv2, ID3,
          Vorbis, FLAC and APE support is provided by taglib and
          OLE2 and ODF support is provided by libgsf.
          For this release we do not propose to deliver libexiv2 and
          taglib.
                  
        * Tools for advanced batch renaming of files, searching, quick file 
          name searching in current dir, symlinking, comparing directories
                  
        * Integrated command line
                  
        * Colour profiles
                  
        * Support for over 35 languages


    4.2. Bug/RFE Number(s):

        None.

    4.3. In Scope:

        See above.

    4.4. Out of Scope:

        See above.

    4.5. Interfaces:

        --------------------------------------------------------------------
        Exported                    Stability       Comments                
        --------------------------------------------------------------------
        SUNWgnome-commander         Uncommitted     Package name            
        /usr/bin/gnome-commander    Uncommitted                
        ${HOME}/.gnome-commander/*
                                    Uncommitted     User specific data
        /usr/lib/gnome-commander/libgcmd.so         
                                    Private
        /usr/lib/gnome-commander/plugins/*
                                    Volatile
        /usr/share/applications/gnome-commander.desktop
                                    Volatile         Desktop file
        /usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-commander/*
                                    Uncommitted     Help documentation
        /usr/share/omf/gnome-commander/gnome-commander-C.omf
                                    Uncommitted     Help documentation
        /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-commander.1
                                    Uncommitted     Man page
        /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-commander.png
                                    Uncommitted     Icon
        /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-commander/*  
                                    Private         Icons
                                                                        
                                                                            
        --------------------------------------------------------------------
        Imported                    Stability       Comments                
        --------------------------------------------------------------------
        gnome-commander uses GNOME interfaces.
        Python                          Volatile        PSARC 2005/532
        libgsf				Volatile	LSARC 2008/345


    4.6. Doc Impact:

        Community provided man page will be installed. 

    4.7. Admin/Config Impact:

        None.

    4.8. HA Impact:

        None.

    4.9. I18N/L10N Impact:

        The JDS team and the G11N are working together to evaluation and
        provide I18N/L10N support.

    4.10. Packaging & Delivery:
    
        Adds new package, SUNgnome-commander, approx 3.7 Mb.


    4.11. Security Impact:

        None.

    4.12. Dependencies:

        The following versions of the imported interfaces are required:

        GNOME 2.22 Upwards

5. Reference Documents:

        The GNOME Commander homepage
        - http://www.nongnu.org/gcmd/