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<bookinfo>
<title>The &amor; Handbook</title>

<authorgroup>
<author>
&Karl.Garrison; &Karl.Garrison.mail;
</author>
</authorgroup>

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<copyright>
<year>2001</year>
<holder>&Karl.Garrison;</holder>
</copyright>

<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>

<date>2003-09-16</date>
<releaseinfo>2.2</releaseinfo>

<abstract>
<para>
&amor; is a small animation which sits on top of your active window.
</para>
</abstract>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>tdetoys</keyword>
<keyword>amor</keyword>
<keyword>helper</keyword>
<keyword>assistant</keyword>
</keywordset>

</bookinfo>

<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>

<sect1 id="whats-amor">
<title>What's &amor;?</title>
<para>
&amor; is an acronym which stands for Amusing Misuse of Resources.  It is
actually an animation which sits on top of your active window.  In its default
configuration, &amor; takes the form of a yellow spot which performs many
tricks.  &amor; also has many different themes which change the appearance
and behavior of the animation.
</para>

<note><para>Since &amor; works with the &kde; window manager &twin;, the
application will only work from within &kde;.  It is possible that &amor;
would work from within another &kde;-compliant window manager, but none are
known to work at the time of this writing.</para></note>
</sect1>
</chapter>

<chapter id="configuration">
<title>Configuration</title>
<sect1 id="configuring-amor">
<title>Configuring &amor;</title>
<para>To configure &amor;, click on the animation using your &RMB;.  A menu
will appear containing three items:
<guimenuitem>Options...</guimenuitem>,
<guimenuitem>About...</guimenuitem>, and
<guimenuitem>Quit</guimenuitem>.  Choose
<guimenuitem>Options...</guimenuitem> to configure &amor;
</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="general-options">
<title>General Options</title>
<para>The following settings for &amor; can be changed from the Options
dialog:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Theme</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This determines the appearance and behavior of &amor;.
Themes are described in the next section.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Offset</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This slider controls where the animation appears in
relation to the top of the active window.  The default middle setting will
place the animation right above the window title bar, whereas setting the
slider all the way to the top or bottom will result in the animation
appearing a fair distance above or below the title bar, respectively.</para>
<tip><para>Setting this slider to a lower setting will allow the
animation to be visible even when the active window is maximized.</para>
</tip></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Always on top</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Checking this option will cause the animation to always
appear in front of any existing windows on the screen, including the
panel.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Show random tips</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If checked, the animation will display various
&kde;-related tips at random intervals.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><guilabel>Allow application tips</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Any &kde; application can be designed to display helpful
tips via &amor;.  If this option is checked, and an appropriate
application is the active window, the animation will display tips for that
application.</para>
<note><para>At the time of this writing, no &kde; applications make use of
this functionality.</para></note></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="amor-themes">
<title>&amor; Themes</title>
<para>&amor; comes with many built-in themes, which change the appearance and
behavior of the animation.  In addition, it is possible to create new
&amor; themes.  The built-in themes for &amor; are described in the table
below</para>

<table>
<title>Available &amor; Themes</title>
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Theme</entry>
<entry>Description</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>

<row>
<entry><mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="spot.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><para>Multi-talented Spot</para></textobject>
<caption><para>Multi-talented Spot</para></caption>
</mediaobject></entry>
<entry><para>This is the default theme for &amor;, and also the one with
the most <quote>tricks</quote>.  This theme was created by &Martin.R.Jones;.  The jet-pack, beaming, and fire animations were contributed by
<personname><firstname>Mark</firstname><surname>Grant</surname></personname>.</para></entry>
</row>

<row>
<entry><mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="ghost.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><para>Spooky Ghost</para></textobject>
<caption><para>Spooky Ghost</para></caption>
</mediaobject></entry>
<entry><para>A ghost theme based-on the &kde;
<application>ghostview</application> icon.  Spooky Ghost was created by
&Martin.R.Jones;.</para></entry>
</row>

<row>
<entry><mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="eyes.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><para>Crazy Eyes</para></textobject>
<caption><para>Crazy Eyes</para></caption>
</mediaobject></entry>
<entry><para>This theme consists of a moving pair of eyes, and was created
by <personname><firstname>Jean-Claude</firstname><surname>Dumas</surname></personname>.</para></entry>
</row>

<row>
<entry><mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="bonhomme.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><para>Bonhomme</para></textobject>
<caption><para>Bonhomme</para></caption>
</mediaobject></entry>
<entry><para>A stick-figure animation, created by <personname><firstname>Jean-Claude</firstname><surname>Dumas</surname></personname>.</para></entry>
</row>

<row>
<entry><mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="neko.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><para>Neko</para></textobject>
<caption><para>Neko</para></caption>
</mediaobject></entry>
<entry><para>Neko is a cat theme by <personname><firstname>Chris</firstname><surname>Spiegel</surname></personname>.  The graphics are
originally from <application>Oneko</application>, which was written by
<personname><firstname>Masayuki</firstname><surname>Koba</surname></personname>.</para>
<note><para><application>Oneko</application> is a small application which
features a cat chasing the mouse cursor.  The application appears to no
longer be maintained, but the
<ulink url="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/demos/oneko-1.1b.tar.gz">
source code</ulink> from the last version is still
available.</para></note></entry>
</row>

<row>
<entry><mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="pingus.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><para>Tux</para></textobject>
<caption><para>Tux</para></caption>
</mediaobject></entry>
<entry><para>This theme features Tux, the &Linux; mascot.  The actual
graphics come from a <application>Lemmings</application>-style game
called <ulink url="http://pingus.seul.org/">
<application>Pingus</application></ulink>.  The Tux theme was created by
<personname><firstname>Frank</firstname><surname>Pieczynski</surname></personname>.</para></entry>
</row>

<row>
<entry><mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="worm.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><para>Little Worm</para></textobject>
<caption><para>Little Worm</para></caption>
</mediaobject></entry>
<entry><para>A small inchworm theme.  Created by <personname><firstname>Bartosz</firstname><surname>Trudnowski</surname></personname> for
his wife.</para></entry>
</row>

<row>
<entry><mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="billy.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><para>Little Billy</para></textobject>
<caption><para>Little Billy</para></caption>
</mediaobject></entry>
<entry><para>A static image taken from the game
<ulink url="http://www.xbill.org/"><application>XBill</application>
</ulink>.</para></entry>
</row>

<row>
<entry><mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="bsd.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><para>BSD Mascot</para></textobject>
<caption><para>BSD Mascot</para></caption>
</mediaobject></entry>
<entry><para>A static image of Beastie, the FreeBSD daemon.</para></entry>
</row>

<row>
<entry><mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="tux.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><para>Unanimated Tux</para></textobject>
<caption><para>Unanimated Tux</para></caption>
</mediaobject></entry>
<entry><para>An unanimated version of the Tux theme.</para></entry>
</row>

<row>
<entry><mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="tao.png"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><para>Tao</para></textobject>
<caption><para>Tao</para></caption>
</mediaobject></entry>
<entry><para>The Tao theme is an animated Yin Yang symbol.  This theme was
created by <personname><firstname>Daniel</firstname><surname>Pfeiffer</surname></personname> <email>occitan@esperanto.org</email>, and was
inspired by his Tai Chi practice.</para></entry>
</row>

</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>

</sect1>
</chapter>

<chapter id="credits">
<title>Credits and License</title>

<para>&amor;</para>

<para>Program Copyright &copy; 1999-2001 &Martin.R.Jones;
&Martin.R.Jones.mail;</para>

<para>Documentation Copyright &copy; 2001 &Karl.Garrison;
&Karl.Garrison.mail;</para>

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&underGPL;
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