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authorAaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com>2001-09-11 10:36:29 +0800
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Contact lists.
2001-09-10 Aaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com> * C/usage-contact.sgml: Contact lists. * C/usage-mail.sgml: Contact Lists. * C/menuref.sgml: Verified and Corrected. svn path=/trunk/; revision=12762
Diffstat (limited to 'help/C')
-rw-r--r--help/C/config-sync.sgml6
-rw-r--r--help/C/menuref.sgml87
-rw-r--r--help/C/usage-contact.sgml109
-rw-r--r--help/C/usage-mail.sgml25
4 files changed, 168 insertions, 59 deletions
diff --git a/help/C/config-sync.sgml b/help/C/config-sync.sgml
index 8f3b30d1f0..b2b2fe6cd5 100644
--- a/help/C/config-sync.sgml
+++ b/help/C/config-sync.sgml
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
want.
</member>
</simplelist>
-
</para>
<para>
@@ -28,8 +27,7 @@
<guilabel>Pilot Conduits</guilabel> section of the Control
Center.
</para>
-
- <para>
+ <para>
Once your computer and your Palm-OS device are talking happily
to each other, you'll have to decide what exactly you want
them to do with the data they exchange. To enable a conduit, click the
@@ -39,7 +37,7 @@
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Disabled </term>
+ <term>Disabled</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Do nothing.
diff --git a/help/C/menuref.sgml b/help/C/menuref.sgml
index e053f3250d..fca576d52c 100644
--- a/help/C/menuref.sgml
+++ b/help/C/menuref.sgml
@@ -11,20 +11,31 @@
<application>Ximian Evolution</application>.
</para>
-<!-- Put this in a note somewhere
- <para>
- Menus in <application>Evolution</application> are
- context-sensitive, which means that they vary depending on what
- you're doing. If you're reading your mail, you'll have
- mail-related menus; for your calendar, you'll have
- calendar-related menu items. Some menus, of course, like
- <guimenu>Help</guimenu> and <guimenu>File</guimenu> don't much, if
- at all, because they have more universal functions. But you'd
- never mark an address card as "read," or set the recurrence for an
- email message you've recieved. depending on whether you're looking
- at mail, contacts, or calendar information.
- </para>
--->
+
+<note id="shortcuts">
+<title>Custom Keyboard Shortcuts</title>
+<para>
+ If you have set custom keyboard shortcuts for your desktop, (you can
+ do this the control center: select
+ <menuchoice><guimenu>System</guimenu><guimenuitem>Settings</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
+ from your menu panel), they may interfere with Evolution keyboard
+ shortcuts.
+</para>
+<para>
+ For example, if you have chosen Emacs-style key bindings for your
+ desktop-wide text editor, the shortcut
+ <keycombo action="simul">
+ <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
+ <keycap>W</keycap>
+ </keycombo>
+ will act as "Cut region" rather than as "Close Window" in the
+ message composer.
+</para>
+</note>
+
+
+
+
<sect1 id="quickref-open">
<title>Opening or Creating Anything</title>
<para>
@@ -39,7 +50,7 @@
<keycombo action="simul">
<keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
<keycap>Shift </keycap>
- <keycap>F</keycap>
+ <keycap>E</keycap>
</keycombo>
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -98,7 +109,10 @@
<term>Enter a new Contact</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu>
+ Double-click in any blank space in the contact
+ manager to create a new address card. You can also
+ use
+ <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Contact</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> or
<keycombo action="simul">
@@ -110,7 +124,6 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry>
<term>Create a new Task</term>
<listitem>
@@ -126,7 +139,6 @@
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
</variablelist>
</para>
</sect1>
@@ -218,18 +230,34 @@
<term>Create Filters and Virtual Folders</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Right-click on a message and select "Create Rule..."
- menu items. You can also create filters and virtual
- folders in the <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu.
+ Right-click on a message and select
+ <guimenuitem>Create Rule From
+ Message</guimenuitem>. You can also create filters and
+ virtual folders in the <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Add Sender to Address Book</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Right-click on a message and select <guimenuitem>Add
+ Sender to Address Book</guimenuitem>. You can also
+ right-click on any email address to add it to your
+ address book.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
+
+
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="quickref-cal">
- <title>Address Book</title>
+ <title>Calendar</title>
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
@@ -239,7 +267,8 @@
<tip id="new-appt">
<title>New Appointments Fast</title>
<para>
- Double-click in a blank space to create a new contact.
+ Click on any blank spot in the calendar and start
+ typing to create a new appointment entry.
</para>
</tip>
</para>
@@ -308,9 +337,19 @@
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term></term>
+ <term>Creating a New Contact</term>
<listitem>
<para>
+ Double-click in any blank space in the contact
+ manager to create a new address card. You can also
+ use <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Contact</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> or
+ <keycombo action="simul">
+ <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
+ <keycap>Shift</keycap>
+ <keycap>C</keycap>
+ </keycombo>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
diff --git a/help/C/usage-contact.sgml b/help/C/usage-contact.sgml
index 80c438283d..6fcf6afd46 100644
--- a/help/C/usage-contact.sgml
+++ b/help/C/usage-contact.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-<!--
<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN">
--->
<chapter id="usage-contact">
<title>Working with Your Contacts</title>
@@ -17,29 +15,19 @@
The toolbar for the address book is quite simple.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
- Click <guibutton>New</guibutton> to create a new card, or double-click
+ Click <guibutton>New Contact</guibutton> to create a new card, or double-click
in a blank space in the contact list.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- <guibutton>Find</guibutton> brings up an in-depth search window.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- <guibutton>Print</guibutton> sends one or more of your cards to the printer.
+ Click <guibutton>New List</guibutton> to create a new card, or double-click
+ in a blank space in the contact list.
</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>
- <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> deletes a selected card.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para> <guibutton>View All</guibutton> displays all
- the address information in the folder. Use this button to
- refresh the display for a network folder, or to switch from
- viewing the results of a search and see all your contacts.
- <!-- Lets xref to search feature -->
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para> <guibutton>Stop</guibutton> stops loading
+
+ <listitem><para> The <guiicon>printer</guiicon> icon sends one
+ or more of your cards to the printer. </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para> The <guiicon>stop sign</guiicon> icon stops loading
contact data from the network. This button is only
relevant if you are looking at contact information on a
network. </para></listitem>
@@ -189,13 +177,14 @@
<term>Multiple Values for Fields</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- If you click on the small arrow buttons next to the
- <guilabel>Primary Email</guilabel> field, you can also
- choose <guilabel>Email 2</guilabel> and
+ If you click on the downward pointing triangle buttons
+ next to the <guilabel>Primary Email</guilabel> field,
+ you can also choose <guilabel>Email 2</guilabel> and
<guilabel>Email 3</guilabel>. Although the contact
editor will only display one of those at any given
- time, <application>Evolution</application> will
- store them all. The arrow buttons next to the
+ time, <application>Evolution</application> will store
+ them all. Entries that have information in them have
+ a check mark next to them. The buttons next to the
telephone and postal address fields work in the same
way.
</para>
@@ -370,7 +359,9 @@
to organize your cards. The first way is to use folders;
this works the same way mail folders do. For more
flexibility, you can also mark contacts as elements of
- different categories.
+ different categories. To better integrate with email tools,
+ you can also create lists of contacts that you can send mail
+ to as a single person.
</para>
<sect3 id="usage-contact-organize-group-folder">
@@ -432,6 +423,72 @@
-->
</sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="usage-contact-organize-group-list">
+ <title>Creating a List of Contacts</title>
+ <para>
+ To create a list of contacts:
+
+ <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Open the list creation dialog box by clicking the
+ <guibutton>New List</guibutton> button or selecting
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>
+ File
+ </guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>
+ New
+ </guisubmenu>
+ <guimenuitem>
+ Contact List
+ </guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enter a name for the list.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Enter names or email addresses of contacts, or just
+ drag contacts from the main window into the list.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Choose whether you would like to hide the email
+ addresses when you send a message to the list.
+ Unless it is a very small list, it is recommended
+ that you leave the addresses hidden. This is the
+ same thing as using the "Bcc:" feature discussed in
+ <xref linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-send-to-types">.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </orderedlist>
+ <para>
+ When you are done, click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>. The
+ list will appear as a contact card, which you can use as
+ you would any other. That includes emailing the list to
+ another person, and, of course, sending email to the list.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To mail the list, open a new email and type the name you
+ chose for the list. Ximian Evolution will address the
+ message to the entire list when you send it. You can also
+ right-click on the list's address card in the Contact
+ Manager and select <guimenuitem>Send Message to
+ List</guimenuitem>,
+ <para>
+ </sect3>
+
+
</sect2>
</sect1>
diff --git a/help/C/usage-mail.sgml b/help/C/usage-mail.sgml
index 434198da93..36fe9b39ad 100644
--- a/help/C/usage-mail.sgml
+++ b/help/C/usage-mail.sgml
@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@
<note>
<title>If you use IMAP Mail</title>
<para>
- If you chose IMAP mail during the setup process, you must subscribe to
- your mail folders before you can read mail in them. Read <xref
- linkend="usage-mail-subscriptions"> to find out how.
+ If you chose IMAP mail during the setup process, you must
+ subscribe to your mail folders before you can read mail in
+ them. Read <xref linkend="usage-mail-subscriptions"> to find out
+ how.
</para>
</note>
@@ -496,7 +497,9 @@
"Send Later" feature is particularly useful if you use a
modem to connect to the Internet and pay per-minute
charges: you can remain offline until you need to send
- mail, then connect and send all your mail at once. Mail in the outbox is sent when you click <guibutton>Send/Recieve</guibutton> in the main window.
+ mail, then connect and send all your mail at once. Mail in
+ the outbox is sent when you click
+ <guibutton>Send/Recieve</guibutton> in the main window.
</para>
<para>
To learn more about how you can specify message queue and
@@ -629,6 +632,15 @@
</menuchoice>.
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ If you frequently write email to the same groups of people,
+ you can create address lists in the Contact Manager, and
+ then send them mail as though they had a single address.
+ To learn how to do that, read <xref
+ linkend="usage-contact-organize-group-list">.
+ </para>
+
</sect3>
<sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-to">
@@ -1435,7 +1447,10 @@ with quoted materials and the relevant replies interspersed-->
<listitem>
<para>
- Check your spelling and use complete sentences.
+ Check your spelling and use complete sentences. By
+ default, <application>Evolution</application> will put
+ a red line beneath words it doesn't recognize, as you
+ type them.
</para>
</listitem>