			      gnome-volume-manager
			   A Volume Manager for GNOME

gnome-volume-manager is a desktop-level daemon that enforces volume-related
policy in response to events received from HAL and the kernel.  Its goal is to
implement all functionality without polling.

It is one component in a larger plan to fully integrate all levels of the Linux
system, from the kernel on up through the desktop and its applications.

The idea behind gnome-volume-manager is to enforce policy on top of HAL, which
provides a hardware abstraction library (via libhal) and event notification
(via D-BUS).

gnome-volume-manager comes in two parts:

	- gnome-volume-manager:	   the manager daemon itself
	- gnome-volume-properties: the control panel applet, for configuration

To run, gnome-volume-manager requires:

	- libgnomeui 2.0
	- libglade 2.0
	- HAL (and thus everything that it requires, such as udev and D-BUS)

To build, gnome-volume-manager requires development packages of:

	- libgnomeui 2.0
	- libglade 2.0
	- HAL 0.2.2
	- D-BUS 0.20

