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In gentoo's main window, there are always exactly two directories being shown. The directories are displayed in sub-windows inside the main window; each such sub-window is called a directory pane. Between the panes is a small handle which allows you to adjust the relative size of the two panes, this is sometimes useful when one pane is more interesting than the other.
The pane also provides scrollbars for navigating inside it; these are only shown when actually needed. As soon as all information fits on-screen, the scrollbars disappear.
Below the file listing, a text box showing the path to the displayed directory is shown. To move to another directory directly (without clicking through the hierarchy), you can click in this box and type the path. When you press <Return>, gentoo will attempt to go to the named directory. If you begin the path with a dollar sign ($) and then the name of an environment variable, gentoo will look up the value of the variable and use that instead. For example, on many systems you can enter $HOME to go to your own home directory.
One of the two panes is always the current one. The active pane has the background color of its column buttons set to some distinct color. In the screenshot, it should be easy to see that the pane on the left is current.
To make a pane current, you can:
For each row in a pane, gentoo displays a selection of information. Which information is displayed, in in what order, is fully user configurable, see the chapter on configuring gentoo for details. The information is divided into columns; a column displays the same pieceleasing your own version if you find it necessary.
As a matter of fact, I would probably prefer detailed descriptions of any bugs you find, as complete as you can make them, rather than actual code. I fear to loose control over the source code if I start applying other people's patches all over the place. Also, my coding style is seldom compatible with other people's, so any patch code would have to be hand-translated into "my" style before inclusion anyway.
Please e-mail any gentoo-related things directly to me at emil@obsession.se. Please try to include the word "gentoo" in the subject line, so I can make some sense out of my mailbox! Thanks.