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DESCRIPTION
Easy-union is a Nautilus extension which allow to define for a directory a list of directories to automatically mount to it.

USAGE
In Nautilus, a new tab in the properties window of the selected directory, called "Union", allow to select directories to mount to the selected directory.

INSTALLATION
Install all required dependancies (see below).
Verify that the paths in the top of the Makefile are correct for you and, if not, modify them.
Run "make install" with appropriate privileges (you will need to have xgettext installed), then restart Nautilus (killall nautilus && nautilus).

UNINSTALLATION
Run "make uninstall" with appropriate privileges.

DEPENDANCIES
Mandatory:
 * Nautilus
 * libnautilus-extension Python bindings (aka python-nautilus)
 * unionfs-fuse
 * bindfs
 * pyinotify (aka python-pyinotify)
Facultative:
 * pynotify (aka python-notify) (necessary to be notified of certain errors)

TECHNICAL DETAILS
Easy-union uses the libnautilus-extension Python bindings to work with Nautilus.
It uses unionfs-fuse (and bindfs when a directory is set to be a branch of itself) to mount branches in mount points.
The list of mount points and branches is stored in Gconf.
A small daemon is launched at GNOME (or other Freedesktop.org compliant desktop environment) startup which mount all of the user's configured branches if they are available and their mount points are too.
It also uses inotify to look for appearance/disappearance of mount points and branches which allow to mount/umount branches accordingly.

TODO
 * Add an emblem on union dirs
 * Add ability to drag and drop folders instead of using filedialog
 * Add ability to select branches mount order
 * Stop to create all that crap in TMP dir (don't have multiple binds for a single dir, create a dir per-user)
 * Stop inotify notifiers when not used anymore
 * Use Gamin instead of inotify to be portable on *BSD and other Unices.

INTERNATIONALIZATION
To update pot and po files after modifying source code, run "make i18n" (you will need to have xgettext installed).
To contribute to translation, please use Launchpad (https://translations.launchpad.net/nautilus-easy-unionfs).

PACKAGE CREATION
The makefile can generate Debian and RPM packages using checkinstall. To do this simply run "make deb" or "make rpm" with appropriate privileges (you will need to have checkinstall installed).
Note that this will also install the package.

LICENSE
Easy-union is published under the GNU General Public License version 3 or any later version, excepted for the internationalization files (*.po, *.pot) which are published under the BSD license (for Launchpad compliance).

AUTHOR
Jonathan Lestrelin <zanko@daemontux.org>

BUGS
If you found any, don't hesitate to report to the author (either via email or at https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus-easy-unionfs) !

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