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-====== Gigolo ======+~~NOTOC~~ 
 +{{ :xfce:xfce.gigolo.png?no link|}} 
 +====== Gigolo - remote filesystem management frontend ======
  
 +  * **[[#Usage|Usage]]**
 +  * **[[#Screenshots|Screenshots]]**
 +  * **[[#Dependencies|Dependencies]]**
 +  * **[[#Latest Release|Latest Release]]**
 +  * **[[#Source Code Repository|Source Code Repository]]**
 +  * **[[#Reporting Bugs|Reporting Bugs]]**
  
 +----
  
 +===== Introduction =====
  
-===== About ===== 
 Gigolo is a frontend to easily manage connections to remote filesystems using Gigolo is a frontend to easily manage connections to remote filesystems using
 GIO/GVfs. It allows you to quickly connect/mount local and remote filesystems and manage GIO/GVfs. It allows you to quickly connect/mount local and remote filesystems and manage
 bookmarks of such. bookmarks of such.
  
-For more information and additional help, please see the homepage at http://www.uvena.de/gigolo/.+GVfs is an userspace virtual filesystem and the successor of GnomeVfs but doesn't 
 +depend on Gnome itself. It only requires a recent GLib version and a properly setup 
 +DBus system. Then it provides almost transparent access to remote 
 +resources like FTP or SFTP (SSH) connections, SMB (windows shares) or special resources like ''trash://'', ''burn://'' or even accessing your digital photo camera.
  
  
-==== About the name ====+For more information and additional help, please see the [[http://www.uvena.de/gigolo/|gigolo homepage]].
  
-Let me quote Olivier Fourdan about the name 'Gigolo':\\ +----
-\\ +
-> <ofourdan> Q: Why is it called "gigolo"\\ +
-> <ofourdan> A: Because it mounts what it's told to+
  
 +===== Usage =====
 +
 +You can start Gigolo in the following ways:
 +
 +  * From the Desktop Environment menu:
 +
 +    Choose in your application menu of your used Desktop Environment:
 +    System --> Gigolo.
 +
 +  * From the command line:
 +
 +    To start Gigolo from a command line, type the following and press Return::
 +
 +      $ gigolo
 +
 +  * To get a list of available command line options, run::
 +
 +      $ gigolo --help
 +
 +[[|Back to Top]]
 +----
  
 ===== Screenshots ===== ===== Screenshots =====
-{{:projects:applications:gigolo_iconview.png?300|The main window (icon view)}}  {{:projects:applications:gigolo_detailedview.png?300|The main window (detailed view)}} 
-{{:projects:applications:gigolo_bookmarks.png?300|The bookmark edit dialog}} 
  
 +<figure "The main window (icon view)">
 +{{:apps:gigolo:gigolo_iconview.png?600|The main window (icon view)}}
 +</figure>
 +  
 +<figure "The preference window (detailed view)">
 +{{:apps:gigolo:gigolo_preferences.png?600|The main window (detailed view)}}
 +</figure>
 +
 +<figure "The bookmark edit dialog">
 +{{:apps:gigolo:gigolo_detailedview.png?600|The bookmark edit dialog}}
 +</figure>
 +
 +[[|Back to Top]]
 +----
  
 ===== Dependencies ===== ===== Dependencies =====
 +
 +For compiling Gigolo, you will need the GTK (>= 2.12.0) libraries
 +and header files. You will also need its dependency libraries and header
 +files, such as Pango, Cairo, Glib and ATK. All these files are available at
 +http://www.gtk.org.
 +
 +Furthermore you need, of course, a C compiler as well as the intltool package.
 +
   * GTK 2.12 or newer   * GTK 2.12 or newer
   * GLib 2.16 or newer   * GLib 2.16 or newer
   * GVfs (in any version)   * GVfs (in any version)
   * intltool   * intltool
 +
 +[[|Back to Top]]
 +----
 +
 +===== Latest Release =====
 +{{rss>https://archive.xfce.org/feeds/project/gigolo 1 date 2h}}
 +
 +[[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/gigolo/-/blob/master/NEWS|Read the CHANGELOG]]
 +
 +  * **[[https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/gigolo/|Download current release]]** (link also contains older versions)
 +
 +[[|Back to Top]]
 +----
 +
 +===== Source Code Repository =====
 +[[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/gigolo/|]]
 +
 +----
 +
 +===== Reporting Bugs =====
 +  * **[[:apps:gigolo:bugs|Reporting Bugs]]** -- Open bug reports and how to report new bugs
 +
 +
 +[[|Back To Top]]
 +----
 +[[:start|Back to main Xfce documentation page]]