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 Clawsker - A Claws Mail Tweaker
 -------------------------------
 
-Clawsker is a Perl-GTK2 applet to edit hidden preferences for Claws Mail.
+Clawsker is a Perl-GTK2 applet to edit hidden preferences for Claws Mail,
+and to do it in a safe and user friendly way, preventing users from raw 
+editing of configuration files.
+
 Claws Mail is a fast and lightweight Mail User Agent by the Claws Mail Team.
 
+You can download the latest version from Clawsker homepage:
+
+  http://www.claws-mail.org/clawsker
+
 Dependencies
 ------------
 
-  Perl - http://www.perl.com
-  GTK+2 bindings for Perl - http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net
-  Claws Mail - http://www.claws-mail.org
+  - Building:
+
+  Nothing special: make, sed, install, gettext and pod2man.
+
+  On Debian systems:
+  # apt-get install make sed coreutils gettext perl
+  (Although you probably already have some of these installed)
+
+  - Running:
+
+  Perl - http://www.perl.com (>= 5.8)
+  GTK+2 bindings for Perl - http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net (>= 1.161) built
+  with GTK+ >= 2.12 (lower GTK+ versions do not support widget tooltips and 
+  a warning is issued).
+  Locale::gettext - http://search.cpan.org/~pvandry/gettext-1.05/ (>= 1.05)
+  Claws Mail - http://www.claws-mail.org (>= 3.1.0)
+
+  On Debian systems:
+  # apt-get install libgtk2-perl liblocale-gettext-perl claws-mail
 
 Install
 -------
@@ -18,7 +41,11 @@ Install
 After downloading the tarball:
 
   tar xzf clawsker-VERSION.tar.gz
-  cd clawsler-VERSION
+  cd clawsker-VERSION
+  make
+
+If finished correctly, become root and:
+
   make install
 
 Replace VERSION with the actual version number of the tarball.
@@ -28,4 +55,46 @@ location (for example /usr) replace last line with:
 
   make install PREFIX=/usr
 
+Optionally you can provide also a DESTDIR as a root tree for the installation.
+
+Contributing
+------------
+
+Patches, bug fixes, and specially, new translations (or updates to the 
+existing ones) are welcome.
+
+To create a new translation just change to 'po' directory, copy 'clawsker.pot'
+into 'xx.po' or 'xx_YY.po',  and fill the empty strings and placeholder values. 
+The 'xx' is your language code (e.g.: 'en' for English, 'fr' for French, etc.)
+and, optionally, 'YY' defines your country variant (e.g.: 'de_CH' for German
+variant in Switzerland). Country should be used only if your translation is
+really specific to that location, otherwise, and specially for new languages,
+try use the generic language (you can always submit a specific one later).
+
+Once finished you can test your new translation by adding your 'xx' or 'xx_YY'
+code to the LINGUAS variable in Makefile and running make. A new .mo file
+with the same name of your .po file should be created if everything is right.
+
+To update an existing translation just type 'make xx.pox' or 'make xx_YY.pox'
+and update the new .pox file created, copy the .pox file to the .po file and
+test it as above (no need to modify the Makefile this time).
+
+Bugs
+----
+
+You can send bug reports to the Issues list on http://clawsker.googlecode.com/
+Also directly by mail to me or in the Claws Mail mailing list, but the Issues
+list is the preferred way.
+
+Thanks
+------
+
+* The Claws Mail Team, for such great mail program
+* Larry Wall and all Perl hackers all over the world
+* The Perl-GTK2 folks and Phillip Vandry
+* Dirk van der Walt, for his Gtk2-Perl Study Guide [0]
+* Debian, for the Operating System
+
+[0] http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/gtk2-perl-study-guide/
 
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