# Audion Setup for Total Commander

[Русский](README_RU.md)

A file manager configuration that can be distributed.

## Why It Exists

A configured file manager means panels, menus, colours, shortcuts, embedded
scripts. It takes years to assemble and travels badly: the settings are spread
across several files, some in a non-standard encoding, some tied to paths.

## The Central Decision

**The manager itself is not included and is not modified.**

The package contains only what is ours: panels, menus, colours, scripts,
configuration. All of it is applied to a freshly installed manager as complete
baselines — not piecemeal, and not by editing what is already there.

From which the main point follows: **the package can be distributed**. It contains
no third-party program, so there is no question of the right to redistribute one.

## Next

* Run `Setup_En.exe` in the root (`Setup_Ru.exe` is the same wizard in Russian):
  it asks where to install, which set
  (Initial / Audion / Ultimate, or a profile by occupation), which menu language,
  and which programs, editors and plugins you want. It fetches Total Commander
  itself.
* If the way out goes through a proxy - the "Proxy" button in the top corner of the window:
  an address like `http://127.0.0.1:8080` or `socks5://name:password@10.0.0.5:1080`, and the
  button knocks through it before taking it. The address is yours alone: none sits in the code,
  it lives only while the window is open and reaches the installation through the environment -
  neither disk nor log sees it, so a password in it leaves no trace.
* The build speaks one language throughout, and the Total Commander menu sets it:
  the console, the program installer, the picker and the atlas read the choice
  from `Wincmd.ini` and answer in it. To switch, use the "Interface language"
  item. A German menu gets English scripts — the manager has a German
  translation, our strings do not.
* The build's documentation lives in `Payload\Docs\`: `USER_GUIDE.md` for the
  daily work, `PROJECT.md` for how it is built.