Copyright (C) 1998-2003 Robin Ericsson <lobbin@localhost.nu> This program is under GPL. See file COPYING for details.
- What is it?
GNOME-Mud is a client for connecting to MUD's (Multi-User Dungeon), written for X-Windows using the GIMP ToolKit (GTK+) and GNOME libraries. Some code used from Bezerk, Xwhois.
Latest version of GNOME-Mud can always be found at http://amcl.sourceforge.net/
2. Requirements.
A c-compiler :), the GTK+ (the GIMP ToolKit) which can be found
at ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk and the GNOME libraries found at
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources. GNOME-Mud requires GTK+ 2.0
or later.
While GNOME-Mud is an application designed to work under the GNOME
desktop, there's nothing that prevents you from using it in KDE or any
other window manager.
GNOME-Mud has been reported to compile and run on the following platforms, if you have a platform not included here, send me a mail to report.
- Linux (alpha, arm, hppa, ia32, ia64, m68k,
mips mipsel, powerpc, s390, sh, sparc)
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD 3. Compiling.
Fastest way to do it:
./configure --help
./configure
make
make install
4. Mailing-list.
General discussion mailing-list: gnome-mud-list@gnome.org
- Discussions about development, user questions and anything related to gnome-mud. 5. Contributing.
Please do! :)
You can hack away as much as you like. If you make something you think would be useful for others, please send us a patch, either via bugzilla or our mailing list.
Things that is in constant need of contrib is:
- translations, only a handful of languages are currently supported.
- useful plugins
- ... what would you like? 6. Reporting bugs.
GNOME-Mud uses the GNOME Bugtracker at <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/>. Please submit any errors you find there. You may want to install the bug-buddy utility to do this easily.
7. Contacting.
Robin Ericsson
lobbin@localhost.nu
GNOME-Mud mailing list
gnome-mud-list@gnome.org
IRC channel
#gnome-mud at GIMPnet (irc.gimp.org)