General Information
===================

This is a reference implementation of VisualIDs in C using the Cairo
graphics-library, and is intended to ultimately be portable to whatever
platforms Cairo supports.

This software is based on the essay:

	VisualIDs: Automatic Distinctive Icons for Desktop Interfaces

by J.P. Lewis et al. The original essay and supplementary material
can be found at J.P. Lewis' website:

	http://scribblethink.org/Work/VisualIDs/visualids.html

Contributions, bug-reports, and other feedback are welcome! Contact:

	Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin@geekspace.com>

You can read about the development of this software at:

	http://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/weblog/VisualIDs

This software is Free Software, licensed under the GNU LGPL--for more
information, see the files COPYING and COPYING.LESSER.

Note: as the "0.x" version-number would indicate, this should be taken
as BETA (or even ALPHA) software; both the interfaces and
functionality are still in a fairly volatile state.


Prerequisites
=============

This package requires the following packages:

    * Cairo <http://www.cairographics.org/>
    * GLib <http://www.gtk.org/>
    * Popt <http://rpm.net.in/mirror/rpm-4.4.x/>


To build the `VisualID Explorer' tool (edit-visualid), the following
packages are additionally required:

    * GTK+ <http://www.gtk.org/>
    * LibGlade <http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/libglade/2.6/>


Installation
============

See the `INSTALL' file.