Introduction:
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atlantis is a lightweight web browser based on gtk-webcore. it was started as
education to learn more about the new gnome 2.x api and to get myself back into
programming. in the past months i got a lot of positive feedback about atlantis
and the pressure to release new versions came with it. i never thought that
something which was started as an education got so much positive feedback. this
leads to one conclusion: there are many people outside that would like a light,
easy and fast web browser to read their news, scan for new files on various
places and do some basic stuff with it. a web browser that fully integrates
into the desktop and that don't depend on another browser or parts of that
browser (e.g. mozilla with nearly 30mb of code). why the need of 30mb of
another browsers core and again another 5mb of something else and suggest the
users that they use something light, when simple browsing can be done with less
than 50kb of code ?



Features:
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* supports DOM, CSS 1&2, HTML 4.x, accessibility, fully supports anti aliased
  fonts, native widgetset inside the rendering window, no lame XUL. this makes
  atlantis full themeable, it starts in less than 2 seconds and finally fully
  integrates into GNOME and supports it's MIME and configuration system.

* 'atlantis %s'. you can specify a url in the commandline and it loads up e.g.
  you can run it within xchat or any other application. place it as default web
  browser in the urlhandler section within gconf.

* you can use your native galeon 'bookmarks.xbel' or konqueror 'bookmarks.xml'
  file in atlantis. simply take your galeon or konqueror bookmarks file and put
  it into the atlantis datadir named 'bookmarks.xml'. you can also create an
  '~/.gnome2/atlantis' directory and put the 'bookmarks.xml' file there.

* variable windowsize, history size and zoom size which can be altered in the
  gconf section. you only need to start up gconf-editor and look under
  '/apps/atlantis' and you can change the values.



Installation:
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please before you do anything, you need to make sure that you have the
gtk-webcore package which you must get and install first. you can get that
stuff from their project page.

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	http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/
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to use atlantis please untar the archive and move all the files to the right
locations. or simply do:

cd / && tar xfjv <path_to_tarball/atlantis-xxx.tar.bz2>

as root and it will unpack and put all the files in the right directories. make
sure that the permission and ownership of the files are correct. logout and
then login into your gnome desktop to see the atlantis icon in the menu. now
you need to open an terminal and enter the following lines as user:

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	gconftool-2 --install-schema-file=atlantis.schemas
	gconftool-2 --shutdown
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that's it. now you should be able to run atlantis without problems. you can
also verify that the schema files for gconf are installed properly when you run
gconf-editor and look under '/apps/atlantis' directory, see if there are values
inside.

atlantis requires gnome 2.x libraries and should work on i686 like systems
(e.g. intel or athlon).



Contact:
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if you want to report bugs, problems or leave other comments then feel free to
write me an email at:

	Ali Akcaagac  <aliakc@web.de>

or join the #gnome or #gnome-de channel on irc.gimp.org and ask for me there.
atlantis used to have a working webpage and own irc channel but they are under
re-construction and it will take some time until they show up again. so long
please be patient.



Disclaimer:
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be said that you deal with experimental stuff. i am in no way responsible for
damages, loss of data, other unconfortable things that this program may cause
for you. use the program at your own risk. i'm not responsible for the contents
of the linked webpages. you have been instructed. if you are unsure you can
contact me anytime.



Copyright:
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atlantis with all its released files are fully copyrighted by me, Ali Akcaagac.
It's not allowed to re-use any components or files inside other projects
without written permission.
