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 <chapter id="introduction">
   <title>Introduction</title>
   <indexterm><primary>Introduction</primary></indexterm>
   <sect1 id="package-description">
   <title>Package description</title>
     <para>&krusader; is a simple, easy, powerful,
     twin-panel file manager (commander-style) for &plasma;
     and other *nix desktops, similar to <application>Midnight Commander</application> or
     <trademark class="copyright">Total Commander</trademark>. It provides all the file management features
     you could possibly want.</para>
     <para>Krusader also includes extensive archive handling,
     mounted file system support, &FTP;, advanced search
     module, viewer/editor, folder synchronization, file content
     comparisons, powerful batch renaming and much, much more.
     &krusader; supports archive formats: ace, arj, bzip2, deb, gzip, iso, lha,
     rar, rpm, tar, zip and 7-zip and handles other
     KIO Slaves such as smb:// or fish://.</para>
     <para>&krusader; is almost completely customizable and therefore
     very user-friendly.</para>
     <para>Try &krusader;.</para>
     <figure id="screenshot-krusader" float="1">
       <title>&krusader; screenshot</title>
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         <imageobject>
           <imagedata fileref="krusader1.png"></imagedata>
         </imageobject>
         <textobject>
           <phrase>&krusader; screen shot</phrase>
         </textobject>
       </mediaobject>
     </figure>
     <para>More <ulink url="https://krusader.org/">&krusader; Screenshots</ulink> can be viewed on
     our website.</para>
   </sect1>
 
   <sect1 id="welcome">
     <title>Welcome to &krusader;!</title>
     <para>Our aim is to give you a simple, intuitive tool that
     easily handles the most important tasks you perform on your
     computer each and every day: manage and process your files the
     way you want.</para>
     <para>Whether you are a &Linux; expert or a novice,
     &krusader; makes routine file management tasks quick
     and accurate, allowing you to focus on the big picture, not
     command line syntax. This is especially helpful if you are new
     to xxNIX operating systems. To do just that,
     &krusader; uses a good-looking &GUI; and
     supports drag and drop as well as &MIME; types, making it easy to
     use.</para>
     <para>&krusader; has many useful features. It is fast, and
     handles <link linkend="archives">archives</link> transparently. In addition,
     &krusader; streamlines many complex file management
     tasks, reducing fatigue, errors, and distraction. Basically,
     &krusader; provides all the helpful features you have
     come to expect from other quality file management tools like
     <application>Midnight Commander</application> and <trademark class="copyright">Total Commander</trademark>. &krusader; is
     designed to integrate seamlessly with the &plasma;,
     the desktop of choice for many programmers, network
     engineers, and other power users of &Linux;. With
     &krusader; even novice users can quickly access the
     power, convenience, and feature rich capabilities of the
     &plasma;. &krusader; is a free
     open-source project, and it is released under the
     <link linkend="credits">&GNU; General Public License (GPL)</link>, although the developers still retain the
     copyright for the project and its name, and manage the
     project's continuing evolution.</para>
     <para>The &krusader; Project mission is to create
     an <quote>all-in-one</quote> file manager, which will do all the ordinary
     things you would expect of it, and more. Since the principle
     behind &krusader; is based on the
     <ulink url="http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml">Orthodox File Manager (OFM)</ulink>, dual-pane filemanagers (<application>Midnight Commander</application>,
     <trademark class="registered">Norton Commander</trademark>, &etc;), it is certain that
     &krusader; is able to handle all the standard Copy,
     Move, Delete, &etc; file operations.</para>
     <para>From the start, virtual file systems became the main
     focus. <link linkend="vfs">Virtual file systems (VFS)</link> are an abstracted layer over all
     kinds of archived information (ZIP files, &FTP;
     servers, TAR archives, &NFS; filesystems, SAMBA shares, ISO
     &CD;/&DVD; images, RPM catalogs, &etc;), which allow the
     user to access all the information in these divergent types of
     file systems transparently - just like entering an ordinary
     sub-folder. Files can then be copied or moved around (except
     ISO, rpm, tar.gz) between these data sources/containers
     effortlessly. &krusader; currently supports VFSs for
     all popular and some specialized types of archives (ace, arj,
     bzip2, gzip, iso, lha, rar, tar, zip and 7-zip), configuration
     packages (rpm, deb), and traditional remote file system types
     (&FTP;, &NFS;, Samba, FISH, SFTP).</para>
     <para>&krusader; also includes a built-in
     Mount-Manager <link linkend="mount-man">MountMan</link>, which enables you to
     mount or unmount file systems of all types with a click of a
     mouse. The user is able to obtain usage and other property
     information easily, in a consistent and understandable format
     in seconds. Ease and consistency is the goal.</para>
     <para>A <link linkend="bookman">Bookmark-Manager</link> for local
     files/remote &URL;s and an
     <link linkend="krusearcher">Advanced Search module</link> is also included to
     speed the locating of needed files. &krusader; also
     allows the user to configure Toolbars in order to provide a
     wide variety of additional functionality, such as File
     Comparison (several user selectable methods available),
     Multiple File Rename, and standard Terminal windows.</para>
     <para>Advanced users benefit greatly from being able to carry
     out clerical tasks effortlessly, without distraction from the
     real task at hand. Convenient shortcut keys enable the user to
     navigate folder trees with ease, create multiple tabbed
     folder views simultaneously, and access fully functional
     history lists. Due to efficient programming and low system
     overhead, &krusader; is perhaps the most responsive
     all around system management tool used to access the full
     potential of a computer using &plasma;, or any other
     standards compliant &X-Window; window manager. Although designed
     specifically for - and tightly integrated with -
     &plasma;, &krusader; works equally well with
     GNOME, MATE, Enlightenment, &windowmaker;, IceWM,
     XFCE, &etc;, as long as the &kde-frameworks; libraries are installed.</para>
     <para>New extensibility is provided by the flexible
     <link linkend="useractions">UserActions</link>, a &krusader;
     innovation that allows unlimited additional custom
     functionality to be added to suit the specific needs of users. We
     are planning to develop more modules in the near future,
     thereby enhancing &krusader;. Information on what is
     proposed, approved, or remains to be completed can be found in
     the <ulink url="https://invent.kde.org/utilities/krusader">&krusader; GitLab page</ulink>.</para>
     <para>No other program we know of, offers so many useful,
     easily accessible features in such an intuitive and simple
     format. Best of all, we listen, and implement good suggestions
     that are consonant with the &krusader; Project's
     goal: making &krusader; the very best File Manager
     available.</para>
     <para>We hope you will enjoy it - we do!</para>
  </sect1>
 </chapter>