Guake README file

INTRO

Guake code is placed in the src directory. We use python system to build guake modules and to generate distribution packages, because it's easy to maintain and because we like python =D

DEPENDENCIES

• Python2.4+
• pygtk2.10 (gtk.StatusIcon)
• pynotify (optional)

INSTALLATION

We are using an autotools based installation, so if you got the source of guake from a release file, please do the following:

$ gunzip -c guake-x.x.x.tar.gz | tar x
$ cd guake-x.x.x
$ ./configure && make
$ su
(give the root password here!)
# make install

For more install details, please read the INSTALL file.

PACKAGERS

The python way to create packages have also distribution specific features, like generate .rpm or .deb files. But if you are interested in make Guake available in other distributions, you can ask setup.py to install in your package build dir with the following command:

$ python setup.py install --root=/path/to/your/package/dir

TRANSLATION

If you want to translate Guake to your locale, please run po-extract. That script will generate a file called messages.pot. Please edit this file with your prefered po editor (like poedit, gtranslator, etc) and please send us your work. And do not forget to rename messages.pot to your language.po, for example pt_BR.po

NOTE: To compile the .po file to .mo, type:

$ msgfmt pt_BR.po -o po/pt/LC_MESSAGES/meuprograma.mo

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