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[gnome-commander] Updated help docs

commit aeae47c917bd72396cea728be217100b0ea09b03
Author: Laurent Coudeur <laurentc iol ie>
Date:   Mon Dec 20 20:25:43 2010 +0100

    Updated help docs

 doc/C/figures/gnome-commander_dialog_bookmark.png |  Bin 4610 -> 27417 bytes
 doc/C/gnome-commander.xml                         |   54 ++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/doc/C/figures/gnome-commander_dialog_bookmark.png b/doc/C/figures/gnome-commander_dialog_bookmark.png
index 1154518..9855a28 100644
Binary files a/doc/C/figures/gnome-commander_dialog_bookmark.png and b/doc/C/figures/gnome-commander_dialog_bookmark.png differ
diff --git a/doc/C/gnome-commander.xml b/doc/C/gnome-commander.xml
index a4e8acd..ffe34b9 100644
--- a/doc/C/gnome-commander.xml
+++ b/doc/C/gnome-commander.xml
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@
 <!-- Use the Introduction section to give a brief overview of what the application is and what it does. -->
   <sect1 id="gnome-commander-introduction">
     <title>Introduction</title>
-    <para>The &app; application is a fast and powerful graphical file manager for the Gnome desktop environment,
+    <para>The &app; application is a fast and powerful graphical file manager for the GNOME desktop environment,
     it has a &quot;two-pane&quot; interface based on the orthodox file manager (OFM) principle,
     in the tradition of Norton and Midnight Commander.
 
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@
         <para>GTK-2 GUI with standard mouse interactions</para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
-        <para>Gnome MIME types</para>
+        <para>GNOME MIME types</para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
         <para>Remote connections using GnomeVFS: FTP, SFTP (SSH+FTP), WebDAV and SMB/CIFS (Samba)</para>
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@
 	 <!-- ================ Tab subsection ================================= -->
 	 <sect2 id="gnome-commander-tabs">
 		<title>Using multiple tabs</title>
-		<Para>You can open multiple tabs in both panels to speed up navigation. Gnome Commander can store the open tabs location upon closing. When you restart the application the tabs are reopened as they were before. This option can be set in <xref linkend="gnome-commander-prefs-general"/>. </Para> 	 	
+		<Para>You can open multiple tabs in both panels to speed up navigation. GNOME Commander can store the open tabs location upon closing. When you restart the application the tabs are reopened as they were before. This option can be set in <xref linkend="gnome-commander-prefs-general"/>. </Para> 	 	
 		<para>Using the mouse the middle click can be configured to open a new tab. This option can be set in <xref linkend="gnome-commander-prefs-general"/>. When it is set a middle click on a folder will open it in a new tab in the same pane.
 		</para>
 		<note>
@@ -895,7 +895,7 @@
        	 <para>To open a new tab displaying the selected folder in the current pane press the <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>Up arrow</keycap></keycombo>. If you have configured the mouse middle click option to open a new tab (<xref linkend="gnome-commander-prefs-general"/>), then using the middle mouse button on a folder will also open a new tab displaying it in the current pane.</para> 
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-       	 <para>To open a new tab displaying the selected folder in the inactive pane press the Ctrl+Shift+Up arrow </para>
+       	 <para>To open a new tab displaying the selected folder in the inactive pane press the <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>Shift</keycap><keycap>Up arrow</keycap></keycombo>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
      	   <para>To navigate between tab you can you the mouse or use <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>Tab</keycap></keycombo> as many time as needed to select the tab element. If the tabs are selected you can also use the <keycap>right arrow</keycap> or <keycap>left arrow</keycap> to select the desired tab.</para>
@@ -907,24 +907,24 @@
     	  <para>Right clicking on any tab will open a tab specific menu</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
-        	<para><guimenu>Open in New Tab</guimenu> this action opens a new tab with the displaying the currently opened folder. </para>
+        	<para><guimenu>Open in new tab</guimenu> this action opens a new tab with the displaying the currently opened folder. </para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-        	<para><guimenu>Refresh Tab</guimenu> this actions refreshes the files displayed currently in the folder.
+        	<para><guimenu>Refresh tab</guimenu> this actions refreshes the files displayed currently in the folder.
         	</para> 
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-        	<para><guimenu>Copy Tab to Other Pane</guimenu> opens a new tab in the opposite pane, this tab will display the selected tab. </para>
+        	<para><guimenu>Copy tab to other pane</guimenu> opens a new tab in the opposite pane, this tab will display the selected tab. </para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-	        <para><guimenu>Close Tab</guimenu> this action closes the currently selected tab.
+	        <para><guimenu>Close tab</guimenu> this action closes the currently selected tab.
         </para>
         </listitem> 
 		  <listitem>        
-        <para><guimenu>Close All Tabs</guimenu> GNOME-Commander will close all open tabs in the current pane. This leaves the current tab as the only open folder.</para>
+        <para><guimenu>Close all tabs</guimenu> GNOME Commander will close all open tabs in the current pane. This leaves the current tab as the only open folder.</para>
         </listitem> 
         <listitem>
-        <para><guimenu>Close Duplicate Tabs</guimenu> GNOME-Commander will search for duplicated open tabs in the current pane and close them.</para> 
+        <para><guimenu>Close duplicate tabs</guimenu> GNOME Commander will search for duplicated open tabs in the current pane and close them.</para> 
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
 	 </sect2>        
@@ -4444,7 +4444,7 @@
         <itemizedlist>
           <listitem>
             <para><guilabel>File Panes</guilabel> in this section you can modify the
-            way &app;is displayed.</para>
+            way &app; is displayed.</para>
           </listitem>
           <listitem>
             <para><guilabel>Mime icon settings</guilabel> in this section you can
@@ -4673,7 +4673,29 @@
       </table>
       <para/>
 
-
+		<sect3 id="gnome-commander-prefs-layout-colors">
+		<title>Configuring custom colors</title>
+		<para>To configure the custom colors for GNOME Commander click on <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Options</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, click on the <guilabel>Layout</guilabel> tab, Select <guilabel>Custom</guilabel> in the <guilabel>Color scheme:</guilabel> drop down list then click the <guilabel>Edit</guilabel> button.</para>
+		<para>This feature allows you to configure how GNOME commander displays elements to suit your needs. By default the unselected elements are all displayed in the same way. This can become confusing, to solve this you can configure alternate colors for alternate rows.</para>
+		<para><guilabel>Foreground</guilabel> describes the color used for the text, and <guilabel>background</guilabel> is the background color used for the row.</para>
+		<itemizedlist>
+			<listitem><guilabel>Default</guilabel> this is the text and background colors used by default. These colors are used for standard unselected items.
+			</listitem>			
+			<listitem><guilabel>Alternate</guilabel> If you wish to have a different color on alternate rows to help distinguish the files you can change the colors defined here. By default they are set to the same colors as the default.
+			</listitem>			
+			<listitem><guilabel>Selected File</guilabel>, all selected items will be marked using the colors defined here. They differ from the default to help visualization of the marked items.
+			</listitem>
+			<listitem><guilabel>Cursor</guilabel> is the row currently activated. This highlights the position and is useful when navigating files with the keyboard.
+			</listitem>
+		</itemizedlist>
+		
+		</sect3>
+		<sect3 id="gnome-commander-prefs-layout-ls_colors">
+			<title>Configuring Custom LS_COLORS</title>
+			 <para>Gnome Commander does not differentiate files types by default.</para>
+			 <para>You can configure it to differentiate files types like LS_COLORS does when using the command shell.</para>
+			 <para>To configure the custom colors for GNOME Commander click on <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Options</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, click on the <guilabel>Layout</guilabel> tab, activate the <guilabel>Colorize files according to the LS_COLORS environmentvariable</guilabel> check box, then click the <guilabel>Edit colors...</guilabel> button.</para>
+		</sect3>
 <!-- ====Confirmation==== -->
     </sect2>
     <sect2 id="gnome-commander-prefs-confirmation">
@@ -5446,8 +5468,8 @@
   <sect1 id="gnome-commander-keyboard">
     <title>Keyboard Mappings</title>
     <note>
-      <para>Some keyboard shortcuts may not work as expected under the Gnome
-                environment. The reason for that is that Gnome uses some global
+      <para>Some keyboard shortcuts may not work as expected under the GNOME
+                environment. The reason for that is that GNOME uses some global
                 shortcuts (i.e. <keycombo><keycap>ALT</keycap><keycap>F7</keycap></keycombo> moves the entire application window),
                 which suppresses assigned keyboard mapping of &app;. Use the GNOME
                 Keyboard Shortcuts preference tool to customize the default keyboard
@@ -6809,7 +6831,7 @@
         </term>
         <listitem>
           <warning>
-            <para>This is outdated info since Nautilus and later Gnome versions no longer use these kind of themes.</para>
+            <para>This is outdated info since Nautilus and later GNOME versions no longer use these kind of themes.</para>
           </warning>
           <para>The default icon theme that comes with &app; 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.
@@ -6852,7 +6874,7 @@
             supporting &app; packages.
         </para>
       <para>
-            All current and historical releases can be found on the <ulink type="http" url="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-commander/";>Gnome FTP server</ulink>.
+            All current and historical releases can be found on the <ulink type="http" url="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-commander/";>GNOME FTP server</ulink>.
         </para>
     </sect2>
     <sect2 id="gnome-commander-versioning">
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