GnomeICU is a program based on Mirabilis' ICQ protocol, and designed for use
with the Gtk+ widget library.  It is meant to be a high speed, high quality
alternative for Mirabilis' Java client (Mirabilis' only attempt at a Linux
client).  Though GnomeICU is quite stable at this time, it is still
development software, and most certainly contains bugs.

If you are unable to get GnomeICU working, feel free to email to the mailing
list.  To subscribe to the mailing list, goto:

  http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnomeicu-support

For bug reports, go to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/

Also, if you're interested in helping with the GnomeICU project, please read
the HACKING file.

REQUIREMENTS:
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* Gtk+2, and Gnome 2 desktop platform
* X11R5 (or above) and libraries
* Linux kernel 2.0.x or greater

NOTE: If you install the above packages as RPMs, be certain you include the
development packages, such as gtk+-devel, glib-devel, gnome-core-devel, and
gnome-libs-devel.  Otherwise you will not be able to compile GnomeICU.

Following are the installation instructions for two different setups (the
titles should be self-explanatory).  If you use Gnome, the Gnome support
contains a number of features which aren't offered in the "no-gnome"
version (e.g. Gnome applet, hotkeys for menu options, etc).

NOTE: There was a new feature introduced in v0.55 which seems to be causing
some trouble.  Auto-away was recently added, but requrires the X screen
saver extensions (/usr/X11R6/lib/libXss.a on RedHat systems).  If you don't
have these libraries, then comment out the -DUSE_XSCREENSAVER line in the
appropriate Makefile.

COMPILING
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1. Untar the gnomeicu-x.xx.tar.gz
   $ tar zxf gnomeicu-x.xx.tar.gz
   This will create a subdirectory, gnomeicu-x.xx/

2. cd gnomeicu-x.xx/

3. Building with GNOME support:

   Run './configure'
   This will create the Makefiles and configuration header files required to
   build GnomeICU.  For configuration options, run './configure --help'.

4. Run 'make' to compile everything.

5. As root, type 'make install'
   NOTE: Previous versions of GnomeICU have installed libgnome*.so files over
   those already installed.  The support/ directory has now been completely
   removed, and 'make install' will no longer overwrite your libraries.

