      Monotheka - A DIVX/DVD LIBRARY FOR THE GNOME DESKTOP


Monotheka is simple application to organize and keep track of
your movie collection. It runs on Linux platform using the GTK
toolkit. It's designed to be simple and GNOME / HIG
compliant. It's written in Mono. It's free. 

Our homepage is:
        
    http://monotheka.enove.pl

Development happens on Novell Forge:

    http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?monotheka

BUGS should be reported to bugzilla clone on Novell Forge
(Development page). You can find the link on the homepage. There
are also some user forums there. You're encouraged to report all
your problems/requests there. 

If possible - please attach the 'configure.log' file created by
the configure script.


REQUIREMENTS:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    - mono >= 1.0.6
    - gtk-sharp >= 1.0.4
    - glade-sharp >= 1.0.4
    - gtkhtml-sharp >= 1.0.4
    - gnome-sharp >= 1.0.4
    - gconf-sharp >= 1.0.4
    - sqlite >= 2.8 (but not >=3)
        
Check the 'INSTALL' file for specific instructions regarding the
installation process. Mono 1.1.x is STRONGLY recommended.


FEATURES:
^^^^^^^^^
        
    * Add/Edit/Delete movies
    * Search through database to quickly list (& sort)
      movies by director, movies by year etc.  
    * Customizable view 
    * Plugin interface to import data
    * Plugin interface to export data.
    * Plugin interface to auto-fill movie data (from
      external sources)
    * Intelligent "remember values" system. Once you enter
      something (director, borrower, country...) in to any
      combo-box it stays there.
    * Flagging movies in the collection (rare, broken CD,
      copy needed, etc.)
    * Movies are highlighted with custom colors (new, borrowed,
      over-borrowed)
    * Borrowers management.
               
    PLUGINS:

    * CSVImport - Imports data from comma-separated text
      file.
    * TXTExport - to export collection to plain text.
    * IMDBGet - to fetch movie data from Internet Movie
      DataBase. A bit of auto-logic included. 
    * FilmwebGet - to fetch movie data from www.filmweb.com
    * AVIGet - to auto-fill movie data (Codecs, Resolution)
      from AVI file
    * HTMLExport - to export collection to HTML (with layout
      templates.
 

PLANNED FEATURES:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Monotheka is in an early stage of development. Although it's
somehow usable right now, we plan to include lots of new features
to make it a fully-functional, complete movie database
system for collectors. That include:
        
    * Localization for different languages.
    * GNOME integration
    * Beagle backend/filter
    * Posters/covers support (possibly with "auto-fetch
      poster" plugins)
    * Some statistics for the database
    * "Wish list"
    * Advanced searching
        
    PLUGINS:

   * SQLExport - to export collection to SQL
   * SQLImport - to import collection from SQL
        


