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Conover: <email>rusty@zootweb.com</email></member> - <member>Miguel De Icaza: <email>miguel@helixcode.com</email></member> - <member> Radek Doulik: <email>rodo@helixcode.com</email></member> - <member>Arturo Espinoza: <email>arturo@nucleu.unam.mx</email></member> - <member>Larry Ewing: <email>lewing@helixcode.com</email></member> - <member>Bertrand Guiheneuf: <email>bertrand@helixcode.com</email></member> - <member>Tuomas Kuosmanen: <email>tigert@gimp.org</email></member> - <member>Christopher J. Lahey: <email>clahey@helixcode.com</email></member> - <member>Matthew Loper: <email>matt@loper.org</email></member> - <member>Federico Mena: <email>federico@helixcode.com</email></member> - <member>Eskil Heyn Olsen: <email>deity@eski.dk</email></member> - <member>Nat Friedman: <email>nat@helixcode.com</email></member> - <member>Ettore Perazzoli: <email>ettore@helixcode.com</email></member> - <member>Jeffrey Stedfast: <email>jeff@helixcode.com</email></member> - <member>Russell Steinthal: <email>rms39@columbia.edu</email></member> - <member>Peter Teichman: <email>peter@helixcode.com</email></member> - <member>Chris Toshok: <email>toshok@helixcode.com</email></member> - <member>Peter Williams: <email>peter@newton.cx</email></member> - <member>Dan Winship: <email>danw@helixcode.com</email></member> - <member>Michael Zucchi: <email>notzed@helixcode.com</email></member> -</simplelist> -and other dedicated GNOME programmers. -</para> - <para> - The <application>Evolution</application> code owes a great debt - to the <application>GNOME-pim</application> and - <application>GNOME-Calendar</application> applications, and to - <application>KHTMLW</application>. The developers of - <application>Evolution</application> acknowledge the efforts - and contributions of all who worked on those projects. - </para> - - <para> - For more information please visit the - <application>Evolution</application> <ulink - url="http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution.php3" - type="http">Web page</ulink>. Please send all comments, - suggestions, and bug reports to the <ulink - url="http://bugs.gnome.org" type="http">GNOME bug tracking - database</ulink>. Instructions for submitting bug reports can be - found on-line at <ulink - url="http://bugs.gnome.org/Reporting.html" type="http"> - http://bugs.gnome.org/Reporting.html</ulink>. You can also use - command <command>bug-buddy</command> for submitting bug reports. - </para> - <para> - This manual was written by Aaron Weber - (<email>aaron@helixcode.com</email>) and Kevin Breit - (<email>battery841@mypad.com</email>) with the help of the - application programmers and the GNOME Documentation Project. - Please send all comments and suggestions regarding the manual to - the GNOME Documentation Project at - <email>docs@gnome.org</email>. You can also add your comments - online by using <ulink type="http" - url="http://www.gnome.org/gdp/doctable/">GNOME Documentation - Status Table</ulink>. - </para> - <!-- For translations: uncomment this: <para> Latin translation - was done by ME (<email>MYNAME@MYADDRESS</email>). Please send - all comments and suggestions regarding this translation to - SOMEWHERE. </para> --> - </appendix> - - - - - diff --git a/doc/C/apx-bugs.sgml b/doc/C/apx-bugs.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index e4a96a8155..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/apx-bugs.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ - <appendix id="bugs"> - - <title>Known bugs and limitations</title> - <abstract> - <para> - This appendix describes known bugs and limitations of - <application>Evolution</application>. Please use the GNOME - <application>Bug Report Tool</application> (known as - <command>bug-buddy</command> at the command line) if you find one - we have not listed. - </para> - </abstract> - - <para> - Evolution is still beta software, so the bug tracking is best - left to the bugzilla system and to the programmers. However, - there are a number of limitations that will not be addressed - before version 1.0. The most notable are: Import of Microsoft - Outlook .pst files, and compatibility with the Microsoft - Exchange protocol. - </para> - </appendix> - diff --git a/doc/C/apx-gloss.sgml b/doc/C/apx-gloss.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 129020aa3d..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/apx-gloss.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,459 +0,0 @@ -<glossary id="apx-gloss"> - - <title>Glossary</title> - - <glossentry id="attachment"> - <glossterm>Attachment</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - Any file sent along with an email. Attachments may be embedded in - a message or appended to it. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - -<glossentry id="automatic-indexing"> - <glossterm>Automatic Indexing</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - Pre-sorting procedure that allows - <application>Evolution</application> to refer to data quickly. - It enables faster searches and decreases memory usage for - data displays. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="bcc"> - <glossterm>Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy)</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - A way of addressing a message. Bcc is used to send a group of - people an e-mail, while hiding their names and addresses from each - other. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="cc"> - <glossterm>Cc (Carbon Copy)</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - Carbon-copies are used to send a 3rd party a copy of the e-mail, - so they an keep up to date on a conversation, without being in the - To: list. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="conduit"> - <glossterm>Conduit</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - A synchronization conduit is a small application which controls - the transfer of data between a handheld device and a desktop - computer. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - - <glossentry id="druid"> - <glossterm>Druid</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - A tool which guides a user through a series of steps, usually to - configure or set up a program. Equivalent to "Assistant" and - "Wizard." - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - -<glossentry id="emoticon"> - <glossterm>Emoticon</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - Also called "smileys," emoticons are the little sideways faces made - of colons and parentheses which people use to convey emotion in email. - Examples: :-) or ;( . - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="evolution"> - <glossterm>Evolution</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> is the <acronym> GNOME - </acronym> groupware application. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="execute"> - <glossterm>Execute</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - To run a program. Any file that can be run is called an - executable. <application>Evolution</application> can download - executable attachments, but before they can be run, the files must - be marked as executable with a shell or file manager. This - security precaution prevents the automatic or accidental execution - of malicious programs. For more information on executables and file - permissions, see the documentation for your file manager or shell. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - - <glossentry id="filetree"> - <glossterm>File Tree</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - A way of describing a group of files on a computer. With the - perversity typical of computer (and especially Unix and Linux) - nomenclature, the top of the tree is called the root directory, - and denoted by <systemitem><filename>/</filename></systemitem>. - The rest of the "branches" spread downwards from the root. Don't - confuse the root directory with the <systemitem>root</systemitem> - account, or root's home directory, - <systemitem><filename>/home/root</filename></systemitem>. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="filter"> - <glossterm>Filter</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - Within <application>Evolution</application>, a filter is a method - of sorting mail automatically. You can create filters to perform - one or more actions on a message that meets any (or all) of a wide - range of criteria. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="forward"> - <glossterm>Forward</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - the user can send a third party a message - which was sent to the user originally. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="groupware"> - <glossterm>Groupware</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - Groupware is a term describing an application which helps groups - of people work together. Typically, a groupware application will - have several productivity features built into one program. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="haiku"> - <glossterm>Haiku</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - A traditional Japanese form of poetry. The poems are three lines - long, with first and last lines having five syllables, and the - second line seven syllables. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="html"> - <glossterm>HTML</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - Hyper-text Markup Language(<acronym>HTML</acronym>) is a language - for describing page layout in electronic documents like web pages, - help files, and email messages. HTML can be used in email and - news posts to insert images and apply text treatments. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="hot-key"> - <glossterm>Hot Key</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - Hot-keys are keyboard combinations used to do actions on a - computer instead of using the mouse to do the same action. - Hot-keys can speed up computer usage. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="ical"> - <glossterm>iCal</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - <application>iCal</application> is the program which - <application>Evolution</application> uses to manage the calendar - section. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="imap"> - <glossterm>IMAP</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - Depending upon whom you ask, IMAP stands for the Internet Mail - Access Protocol, or the Interim Mail Access Protocol. Whatever it - stands for, it allows access to email which is typically (although - not always) stored remotely on a server rather than on a local - hard disk. Often contrasted with <glossterm>POP</glossterm>. - This will not be on the test. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - - <glossentry id="inline"> - <glossterm>Inline</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - Displayed as part of a message or other document, rather than - attached as a separate file. Contrast with <glossterm - linkend="attachment">Attachment</glossterm>. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="ldap"> - <glossterm>LDAP</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - LDAP, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, allows a client - to search through a large database of addresses, phone numbers, - and people stored on a server. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="mail-client"> - <glossterm>Mail Client</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - A mail client is the application with which a person reads and - sends e-mail. Its counterparts are the various types of mail - servers, which handle user authentication and direct messages from - sender to recipient. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - - <glossentry id="minicard"> - <glossterm>Minicard</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - A format for the display of contact data. Similar in appearance - to a small business card. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="nautilus"> - <glossterm>Nautilus</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - <application>Nautilus</application> is the next generation file - manager for <acronym>GNOME</acronym> being written by Eazel. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="nickname"> - <glossterm>Nickname</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - An alias for an e-mail address. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="pop"> - <glossterm>POP</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - POP, the Post Office Protocol, is a mechanism for email - transport. In contrast to IMAP, it is used only to get mail from - a server and store it locally on your hard disk. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="protocol"> - <glossterm>Protocol</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - An agreed-upon method of communication, especially one for - sending particular types of information between computer systems. - Examples include POP (Post Office Protocol), for email, and HTTP - (HypterText Transfer Protocol), for web pages. - - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - - <glossentry id="regular-expression"> - <glossterm>Regular Expression</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - A regular expression, or "regex", is a way of describing a - string of text using metacharacters or wild-card symbols. For - example, the statement <userinput>fly.*so[a|u]p</userinput> means - "any phrase beginning with 'fly' and ending in 'soup' or - 'soap'". If you searched for that expression, you'd find both - "fly in my soup" and "fly in my soap." There's not room here to - go into depth, but if you want, have a look at the documentation - for the <command>grep</command> command. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="script"> - <glossterm>Script</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - A program written in an interpreted (rather than compiled) - language. Often used as a synonym for "macro," to denote a series - of pre-recorded commands or actions within an application. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="sendmail"> - <glossterm>Sendmail</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - As its name implies, <application>sendmail</application> is a - program which sends mail. <application>Evolution</application> - can use it instead of <glossterm>SMTP</glossterm>; some people - prefer it because it offers more flexibility, but is more - difficult to set up. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - - <glossentry id="shortcut-bar"> - <glossterm>Shortcut Bar</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - A portion of <application>Evolution</application> which offers - users fast access to the most frequently used portions of the - application. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="signature"> - <glossterm>Signature</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - In email terms, a signature is a piece of text placed at the end - of every email sent, like a hand-written signature at the bottom - of a written letter. A signature can be anything from a favorite - quotation to a link to a web page; courtesy dictates that it be - fewer than four lines long. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="SMTP"> - <glossterm>SMTP</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - This is the most common way of transporting mail messages from - the client's computer (you) to the server. SMTP stands for - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="spam"> - <glossterm>Spam</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - Useless, unsolicited e-mail. Spam normally comes in forms of - chain letters and advertisements for unscrupulous or clueless - companies. Messages that are merely useless are called "opt-in - newsletters." - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - - <glossentry id="tooltip"> - <glossterm>Tool-Tip</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - A small box of explanatory text which appears when the mouse - pointer is held motionless over a button or other interface - element. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - - - - <glossentry id="virus"> - <glossterm>Virus</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - A malicious program which inserts itself into others so that it will be - executed, allowing it to spread to still more programs and other computers. - A virus can cause substantial damage by clogging networks or disk drives, - deleting files, or opening security holes. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="vcard"> - <glossterm>vCard</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - A file format for the exchange of contact information. When you - get an address card attached to an email, it's probably in vCard - format. Not to be confused with <glossterm - linkend="vfolder">vFolder</glossterm>. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - - <glossentry id="vfolder"> - <glossterm>vFolder</glossterm> - <glossdef> - <para> - An email organization tool. vFolders allows you to create a folder - that contains the results of a complex search. Folder contents are - are updated dynamically. - </para> - </glossdef> - </glossentry> - -</glossary> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - diff --git a/doc/C/config-prefs.sgml b/doc/C/config-prefs.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 157b61e1cc..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/config-prefs.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,646 +0,0 @@ -<!-- <!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN"> --> -<chapter id="config-prefs"> - - <title>Advanced Configuration</title> - <para> - Perhaps your mail server has changed names. Perhaps you've - grown tired of a certain layout for your appointments. - Whatever the reason, you want to change your - <application>Evolution</application> settings. This chapter - will tell you how to do just that. - </para> - - <sect1 id="config-prefs-mail"> - <title>Mail Settings</title> - <para> - To change your mail settings, select <menuchoice> - <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Mail - configuration</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the Inbox. This - will open the <interface>mail preferences window</interface>, - illustrated in <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail-fig">. Mail - preferences are separated into several categories: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Identities</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - This allows you to create and alter one or more - identities for your email. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Sources</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - This tab lets you tell - <application>Evolution</application> where to get the - mail sent to you, and how to get it. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - - <term><guilabel>Mail Transport</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - This tab lets you tell - <application>Evolution</application> how to send mail. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>News Servers</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - If you would like to use - <application>Evolution</application> to read newsgroups, - you can specify your news server preferences here. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Other</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Miscellaneous mail and news settings, such as HTML - handling preferences, and how long - <application>Evolution</application> should wait before - marking a message read. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - - </para> - - <!-- ==============Figure===================== --> - <figure id="config-prefs-mail-fig"> - <title>Mail Preferences Dialog</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Setting mail preferences</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/config-mail" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> - <!-- ==============End of Figure================--> - - - <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-identity"> - <title>Identity Settings</title> - <para> - If you have only one email account, or send email from only - one address, you will only need to configure one identity. If - you want, however, you can have multiple identities. This - can be useful if you want to keep personal and professional - email separate, or if you wear several hats at work. - - </para> - <para> - To add a new identity, simply click - <guibutton>Add</guibutton>. To alter an existing identity, - click on it in the <guilabel>Identity</guilabel> tab of the - <interface>Preferences</interface> window, and then click - <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>. - </para> - - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> will then present you - with a dialog box containing four fields: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Full Name:</guilabel> by default, this is the - same name as the full name described in your user - account on your computer. You can select another if you - wish. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Email address:</guilabel> Enter your email - address in this space. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Organization:</guilabel> If you send email as - a representative of a company or other organization, - enter its name here. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Signature file:</guilabel> You may choose a - small text file to be appended to every message that you - send. Typically, signature files include address or - other contact information, or a favorite quotation. - It's good form to keep it to four lines at the maximum. - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-network"> - <title>Network Settings</title> - <para> - In order to send mail with - <application>Evolution</application>, you need to connect to - your network. To do that, you'll need to know your user name - and password, what sort of mail sending and receiving - protocols your network uses, and the names of the servers - you'll be using. If you're switching from another groupware - or email program, you can almost certainly use the same - settings as you did with that program. Network-related - settings are in the <guilabel>Mail Sources</guilabel> and - <guilabel>Mail Transport</guilabel> tabs. - </para> - - <sect3 id="config-prefs-network-sources"> - <title>Mail Sources</title> - <para> - The <interface>Mail Sources</interface> tab allows you to - edit, add, or delete methods of retrieving mail from - servers. Clicking on <guibutton>Add</guibutton> or - <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> will bring up a dialog box to - offer you the following options: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Mail source type:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Select from <glossterm - linkend="imap">IMAP</glossterm> or <glossterm - linkend="pop">POP</glossterm> servers, or Unix-style - <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem> - or <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem> - files. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term> <guilabel>Server:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Enter the name of the mail source server in this - field. If you use an may or may not be the same as your - <glossterm linkend="smtp">SMTP</glossterm> server. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Username:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Enter the user name for the account you have on the - server-- this should the part of your email address - before the @. If you use - <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem> - or <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem> - files as your mail source, you do not need to enter - a username. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Authentication:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Tell <application>Evolution</application> how to - verify your identity with the server. Your options - vary depending upon the type of server you are - using, and the ways it is configured. Given the - name of a server, - <application>Evolution</application> can detect what - sorts of authentication it offers. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Test Settings</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Click this button to have - <application>Evolution</application> check to see if - mail sources are configured correctly. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - <para> - If you have several mail sources, clicking <guibutton>Get - Mail</guibutton> will refresh any IMAP, - <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem>, or - <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem> - listings and check and download mail from all POP servers. - In other words, <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton> gets your - mail, no matter how many sources you have, or what types - they are. - </para> - </sect3> - - <sect3 id="config-prefs-mail-network-transports"> - <title>Mail Transports</title> - <para> - The <interface>Mail Transports</interface> tab lets you set - how you will send mail. Evolution currently supports two - mail transport options: <glossterm linkend="smtp">SMTP</glossterm>, which - uses a remote mail server, and - <glossterm linkend="sendmail">sendmail</glossterm>, which uses the - <application>sendmail</application> program on your local - system. <application>Sendmail</application> is more - difficult to configure, but offers more flexibility than - <glossterm>SMTP</glossterm>. - </para> - <para> - To use <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, you'll need to enter the - name of your SMTP server. It may have the same name as - your mail source server. - </para> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> can attempt to - determine if you have entered a valid server name. To - have it do so, click the <guilabel>Test - Settings</guilabel> button. - </para> - </sect3> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="config-prefs-network-news"> - <title>News Servers</title> - <para> - Newsgroups are so much like mailing lists that there's no - reason not to keep them right next to your mail. When you - first select the <guilabel>News Servers</guilabel> tab, - you will see a blank box with the three familiar buttons - on the right: <guibutton>Add</guibutton>, - <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>, and - <guibutton>Delete</guibutton>. - </para> - <para> - Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton> to add a news server; you - will be prompted for its name. Enter the name, click - <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, and you're done. You can have - as many mail servers as you like, of course. News servers - will appear next to your IMAP servers in the - <interface>folder bar</interface>. - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-other"> - <title>Other Mail Preferences</title> - <para> - Not everything fits neatly into categories. This tab - contains some miscellaneous configurations that don't have - too much to do with each other. - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term> - <guilabel>Send messages in HTML format</guilabel> - </term> - <listitem><para> - If you check this box, you will send - messages as HTML by default. If you leave it unchecked, your - messages will be sent without HTML formatting unless you select - <menuchoice> <guimenu>Format</guimenu> <guimenuitem>HTML</guimenuitem> - </menuchoice> in the message composer. - See <xref linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-send-html"> - for more information about HTML mail. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term> - <guilabel>Mark Messages as Seen After</guilabel> - </term> - <listitem><para> - When you click on a message, - <application>Evolution</application> will wait a - moment before marking it as seen. You can set the - delay, in milliseconds, here. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term> - <guilabel>Folder Format</guilabel> - </term> - <listitem> <para> By default, - <application>Evolution</application> saves its mail - in the - <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem> - format. You can switch to the - <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem> - format if you like. Note that this is an advanced - feature and may cause you to lose some messages, so - you should probably make a backup of your - <systemitem><filename>evolution</filename></systemitem> - directory first. In addition, it will take quite - some time if you have a large mailbox. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="config-prefs-cal"> - <title>Configuring the Calendar</title> - <para> - To set your calendar preferences, select - <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu> - <guimenuitem>Calendar - Configuration</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from the Calendar - view. This will open up the - <interface>Preferences</interface> window. It contains four - tabs: <guilabel>Time display</guilabel>, - <guilabel>Colors</guilabel>, <guilabel>To Do List</guilabel> - and <guilabel>Alarms</guilabel>. The <interface>calendar - preferences window</interface> is illustrated in <xref - linkend="config-prefs-cal-fig">. - - <!-- ==============Figure===================== --> - <figure id="config-prefs-cal-fig"> - <title>Calendar Preferences Dialog</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>If this worked on my job as well as my calendar...</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/config-cal" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> - <!-- ==============End of Figure================--> - </para> - - <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-time"> - <title>Time Display Settings</title> - <para> - The <guilabel>Time display</guilabel> tab lets you set the - following: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term>Time format</term> - <listitem> - <para>You may choose between twelve-hour (AM/PM) and - twenty-four hour time formats here by clicking the - appropriate radio button. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term>Weeks start on</term> - <listitem> - <para>You can set weeks to start on Sunday or on Monday.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term>Day range</term> - <listitem> - <para> - When does your work day start, and when does it end? - In the day and week views, - <application>Evolution</application> displays all the - hours in the range you select here, even if there are - no appointments for those times. Of course, you can - still schedule an appointment outside of these hours, - and if you do, the display will be extended to show - it. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-color"> - <title>Calendar Colors</title> - <para> - The <interface>colors tab</interface> allows you to decide - what color your calendar will be. The tab consists of a - sample calendar on the right and a list of ten items that can - be colored in different ways. If you click on the color - button to the right of each item, you will bring up a - color-selector window where you can choose to alter that - color. By clicking <guibutton>OK</guibutton> in the color - selection dialog, you can see the results of the color on the - sample calendar. - </para> - <para>The display elements whose color you can set are: - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Outline:</guilabel> The lines between days - and at the top of the display. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> <guilabel>Headings:</guilabel> Text color for day - and month names and other headings. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> <guilabel>Empty days:</guilabel> This is the - background color for any time slots in which you have no appointments. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Appointments:</guilabel> This is the - background color for any time slots in which you have appointments. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> <guilabel>Highlighted day:</guilabel> The - background color for a selected time slot. - </para> - </listitem> - - - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Day numbers:</guilabel> Text color for date numbers. - </para> - </listitem> - - - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Current day's number:</guilabel> Text color for today's date. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is not yet - due:</guilabel> Text color for To-Do list items that are - not yet due. (Or maybe background color? find out!) - </para> - </listitem> - - - <listitem> - <para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is due today:</guilabel> - Text color for today's tasks. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is overdue:</guilabel> - Text color for overdue tasks. - </para> - </listitem> - - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-todo"> - <title>To Do List Settings</title> - <para> - You can choose what information the To Do list displays and the - way it is displayed. The two areas of the <interface>To Do - List</interface> tab offer several options each: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term>Show on To Do List</term> - <listitem> - <para> - This box contains three items. If you select the - check boxes next to them, that information will appear - in the To Do list for each task it contains: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Due Date</guilabel></para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Time Until Due</guilabel></para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Priority</guilabel></para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term>Style Options</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Select among the following checkboxes to determine - how your To Do list will look: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Highlight overdue items</guilabel></para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Highlight items due today</guilabel></para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Highlight not yet due items</guilabel></para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-alarms"> - <title>Alarms Settings</title> - <para> - The <interface>alarms tab</interface> enables you to select from three boxes: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Beep on display alarms</guilabel>: select - this box to have <application>Evolution</application> beep - at you for any alarms you have set. If you leave this box - unchecked, <application>Evolution</application> will only - alert you to events by opening a dialog box. These beeps - are distinct from full-fledged audio alarms. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Audio alarms timeout after: </guilabel> - Select this button to have your audio alarms stop - automatically after a certain number of seconds. </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Enable snoozing for:</guilabel> If you - would like to have the option to tell - <application>Evolution</application> to repeat an alarm in - a few minutes, select this button and decide how long - you'd like it to wait. - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </sect2> - - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="config-prefs-contact"> - <title>Managing the Contact Manager</title> - <para> - To set the behavior of your Contact Manager, click on the - <guibutton>Contact Manager</guibutton> tab in the - <interface>Preferences</interface> window. - </para> - <para> - You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list - here--> - </para> - - <sect2 id="config-prefs-contact-ldap-add"> - <title>Adding Directory Servers</title> - <para> - To add a new LDAP server to your available contact - folders, select <menuchoice> <guimenu>Actions</guimenu> - <guimenuitem>New Directory Server</guimenuitem> - </menuchoice>. This brings up a small dialog box which - will let you enter the following options: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para> - <guilabel>Name</guilabel> — any name you choose for the server. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guilabel>Description</guilabel> — a longer description of the server. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guilabel>LDAP Server</guilabel> — the network address of the server. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guilabel>Port Number</guilabel> — by default, the port number is 389. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guilabel>Root DN</guilabel> — enter the root DN here. - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - - - - <sect1 id="config-prefs-general"> - <title>General Preferences</title> - <para> - Additional configuration options will be covered here, as - they become available. - </para> - </sect1> -</chapter> - - - - - - diff --git a/doc/C/config-setupassist.sgml b/doc/C/config-setupassist.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index b9b72b568a..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/config-setupassist.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,213 +0,0 @@ - <chapter id="config-setupassist"> - <title>Easy Setup with the Setup Assistant</title> - <para> - The first time you try to use email, the mail setup assistant - will ask you for some basic information, so - <application>Evolution</application> can let you use email. If - you prefer more detailed configuration, or if you want to make - changes to an existing email setup, see <xref - linkend="config-prefs">. - </para> - - <sect1 id="config-setupassist-mail"> - <title>Mail Setup</title> - <para> - The first time you try to send or receive mail with - <application>Evolution</application>, the <interface>mail - setup assistant</interface> will pop up to help you with your - email preferences. If you don't plan to use email, or if - you'd rather deal with your email preferences later, click - <guibutton>Cancel</guibutton>. - </para> - -<!-- - - Before you get it, though, you should decide where you want to - keep it. Your options will vary a little depending on your - network setup, but they come down to storing the mail on your - hard disk (using <glossterm linkend="pop">POP</glossterm>), or - storing it on the network (using <glossterm - linkend="imap">IMAP</glossterm>). If you store your mail on - your local hard disk, you can read it whether you're online or - not, but you can only read it from one computer. If you store - it on the network, you can only read it when you're online, - but you can access it from almost any computer with a network - connection, even if it doesn't have - <application>Evolution</application>. - - - If you choose POP, you'll be putting mail in the - <guilabel>Inbox</guilabel> in the <guilabel>Local</guilabel> - folder. If you choose IMAP, it's the - <guilabel>Inbox</guilabel> of a folder with the same name as - your mail server. That's so you can maintain several distinct - IMAP servers if you want. See <xref - linkend="config-prefs-mail"> for more information about mail - servers. ---> - - <para> - The setup assistant (sometimes called a - <glossterm>Druid</glossterm>, by analogy with the "Wizards" - that some other programs use) will guide you through the - network configuration process. It will ask you for some - basic information; your system administrator or ISP should - have the answers you'll need. The mail setup assistant is - pictured in <xref linkend="usage-setup-fig">. - -<!-- ==============Figure=================================== --> -<!-- druid-pic should eventually become assistant-pic --> - - <figure id="usage-setup-fig"> - <title>Mail Setup Assistant</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Evolution Main Window</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/mail-druid-pic" format="png" srccredit="Kevin Breit"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> -<!-- ==============End of Figure=================================== --> - - - - The assistant will ask you for the following information: - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term> <guilabel>Name:</guilabel> </term> <listitem> - <para>Your full name. </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Email address:</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - Your complete email address. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term> <guilabel>Organization:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Any organization you represent, or the company where you - work. Leave this blank if you wish, or type "My own bad - self" so people know your opinions are yours alone. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Signature File:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - A text file appended to any email you send. A signature - file typically consists of your name and email address, - or a quotation you like. It's good form to keep your - "sig" on the short side: four lines is plenty. Remember, - this is attached to every email you send. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term> <guilabel>Mail source type:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> supports several - mail sources: <glossterm linkend="pop">POP</glossterm> and - <glossterm linkend="imap">IMAP</glossterm> servers, and UNIX-style - <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem> and - <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem> files. - POP servers retrieve your mail and store it on your - local system so you can refer to it even when not - connected to a network; <glossterm>IMAP</glossterm> - servers store the mail on the server so you can access - it from multiple locations; - <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename>></systemitem> - files are used by your computer for internal mail, and - may be useful if you want to switch from another email - client such as <application>Spruce</application> or - <application>Netscape Communicator</application>. Ask - your system administrator which you should use, or keep - guessing until one works. You may use multiple sources - if you wish; see <xref - linkend="config-prefs-mail-network"> for more - information. - </para> - <para> - If you decide not to have - <application>Evolution</application> use any servers, - the remaining items are not relevant; you only need to - point to the location of the files you wish to access. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term> <guilabel>Server:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - This should be the name of the server where you get - incoming mail. It may (or may not) be the same as the - server where you send your outgoing mail. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Username:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Enter the username for your mail server account, if you - have one. In almost all cases, this is the part of your email - address before the @ character, and - <application>Evolution</application> has selected that - value as the default. If you have a different username, - you can enter it here. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Authentication:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Select the type of authentication you will use. You can - click <guibutton>Detect supported types</guibutton> to - find out which authentication protocols your network - allows. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Mail Transport:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - This is the mail sending protocol you will want to use. - <application>Evolution</application> supports both - <glossterm linkend="smtp">SMTP</glossterm> and - <application>sendmail</application>; SMTP is by far the - more common. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - <para> - To learn how to configure <application>Evolution</application> - in greater detail, or to change preferences once you have set - them, see <xref linkend="config-prefs">. - </para> - </sect1> - -</chapter> - - - - - - - - - diff --git a/doc/C/config-sync.sgml b/doc/C/config-sync.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 0445b474c4..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/config-sync.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,124 +0,0 @@ - <chapter id="config-sync"> - <title>Setting up your synchronization system</title> - <para> - Synchronization presents you with two issues you'll need to - deal with. - <simplelist> - <member> - Your computer needs to recognize and access your handheld. - At this time, <application>Evolution</application> only - supports Palm-OS devices like the PalmPilot and the - Handspring Visor. - </member> - <member> - You should decide what sort of synchronization behavior you - want. - </member> - </simplelist> - - </para> - <para> - If you haven't used a handheld device with your computer - before, you'll need to run the GNOME <application>Control - Center</application> and make sure that <application>Pilot - Link</application> is properly configured. Then, select the - <application>Evolution</application> <glossterm - linkend="conduit">conduits</glossterm> under the - <guilabel>Pilot Conduits</guilabel> section of the Control - Center. - </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. Your options may vary - depending on the conduit, but typically they will be: - - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term>Disabled </term> - <listitem> - <para> - Do nothing. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Synchronize</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Copy new data from the computer to the handheld, and - from the handheld to the computer. Remove items - that were on both systems but have been deleted on - one. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Copy From Pilot</term> - <listitem> - <para> - If there is any new data on the the handheld device, - copy it to the computer. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Copy To Pilot</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Copy new data from the computer to the handheld. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Merge From Pilot</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Copy new data from the handheld to the computer, and - remove any information from the computer that has - been deleted on the handheld. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Merge To Pilot</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Copy new data from the computer to the handheld, and - remove any information from the handheld that has - been deleted on the computer. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - - <para> - Select a behavior for each conduit available. For the most - part, you'll want to stick with - <guilabel>Synchronize</guilabel>. Then, put your handheld on - its cradle and press the synchronization button. - </para> - - - <para> - <warning> - <title>Data Loss Prevention</title> - <para> - It's always a good idea to make a backup. To do that, - make a copy of your <systemitem> - <filename>~/evolution</filename> </systemitem> directory. - </para> - </warning> - </para> - - </chapter> - - - - diff --git a/doc/C/evolution.sgml b/doc/C/evolution.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 114f2e87d9..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/evolution.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,145 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN"[ - -<!ENTITY PREFACE SYSTEM "preface.sgml"> -<!ENTITY USAGE-MAINWINDOW SYSTEM "usage-mainwindow.sgml"> -<!ENTITY USAGE-EXEC-SUMMARY SYSTEM "usage-exec-summary.sgml"> -<!ENTITY USAGE-MAIL SYSTEM "usage-mail.sgml"> -<!ENTITY USAGE-CONTACT SYSTEM "usage-contact.sgml"> -<!ENTITY USAGE-CALENDAR SYSTEM "usage-calendar.sgml"> -<!ENTITY USAGE-SYNC SYSTEM "usage-sync.sgml"> -<!ENTITY USAGE-PRINT SYSTEM "usage-print.sgml"> -<!ENTITY CONFIG-SETUPASSIST SYSTEM "config-setupassist.sgml"> -<!ENTITY CONFIG-PREFS SYSTEM "config-prefs.sgml"> -<!ENTITY CONFIG-SYNC SYSTEM "config-sync.sgml"> -<!ENTITY MENUREF SYSTEM "menuref.sgml"> -<!ENTITY APX-GLOSS SYSTEM "apx-gloss.sgml"> -<!ENTITY APX-BUGS SYSTEM "apx-bugs.sgml"> -<!ENTITY APX-AUTHORS SYSTEM "apx-authors.sgml"> - -]> - - -<!-- Almost every chapter is an entity. 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Reinstate the entity if and when the Notes feature is -implemented. --> - -<book id="index"> - <bookinfo> - <title>A User's Guide to Evolution</title> - <authorgroup> - <author><firstname>Aaron</firstname><surname>Weber</surname></author> - <author><firstname>Kevin</firstname><surname>Breit</surname></author> - </authorgroup> - <copyright> - <year>2000</year> - <holder> Ximian, Inc., </holder> - <holder> Kevin Breit </holder> - </copyright> - - <legalnotice id="legalnotice"> - - <para> - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this - document under the terms of the <ulink type="help" - url="gnome-help:fdl"><citetitle>GNU Free Documentation - License</citetitle></ulink>, Version 1.1 or any later version - published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant - Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. You - may obtain a copy of the <citetitle>GNU Free Documentation - License</citetitle> from the Free Software Foundation by - visiting <ulink type="http" url="http://www.fsf.org">their - Web site</ulink> or by writing to: Free Software Foundation, - Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, - USA. - </para> - <para> - Many of the names used by companies to distinguish their - products and services are claimed as trademarks. Where those - names appear in any GNOME documentation, and those trademarks - are made aware to the members of the GNOME Documentation - Project, the names have been printed in caps or initial caps. - </para> - </legalnotice> - - <releaseinfo> - This is version 0.9 of the Evolution manual. - </releaseinfo> - - </bookinfo> - - &PREFACE; - - <part id="usage"> - <title>Using Evolution</title> - <partintro> - <para> - Part one of the <application>Evolution</application> manual - describes how to use <application>Evolution</application> for - email, contact management, and appointment and task - scheduling. You'll find as you go along that there's more - than one way to do things, and you can pick whichever method - you like best. - </para> - </partintro> - - &USAGE-MAINWINDOW; - &USAGE-EXEC-SUMMARY; - &USAGE-MAIL; - &USAGE-CONTACT; - &USAGE-CALENDAR; -<!-- &USAGE-NOTES; --> - &USAGE-SYNC; - &USAGE-PRINT; - </part> - <part id="config"> - <title>Configuring and Managing Evolution</title> - <partintro> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> is highly configurable. - Usually, when developers say that, they mean that they didn't - test it out thoroughly and have left it to other programmers - to "configure" themselves a working system. In the case of - <application>Evolution</application>, "configurable" means - what it ought to. It means that, while you can expect the - program to work perfectly well in its default settings, it's - also easy to alter its behavior in a wide variety of ways, so - that it fits your needs exactly. This part of the book will - describe that process, from the quickest glimpse of the Setup - Assistant to an in-depth tour of the preferences dialogs. - </para> - </partintro> - - &CONFIG-SETUPASSIST; - &CONFIG-PREFS; - &CONFIG-SYNC; - </part> - - <part> - <title>Comprehensive Menu reference</title> - <partintro> - <para> - The following reference covers all, or nearly all, of the - menus and menu commands that - <application>Evolution</application> has to offer you. - </para> - </partintro> - &MENUREF; - </part> - - &APX-GLOSS; - &APX-BUGS; - &APX-AUTHORS; -</book> - - - - - - - - - - - diff --git a/doc/C/fig/calendar.png b/doc/C/fig/calendar.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index c9703f4903..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/calendar.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/fig/config-cal.png b/doc/C/fig/config-cal.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 25b5b68621..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/config-cal.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/fig/config-mail.png b/doc/C/fig/config-mail.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index cd8543d94e..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/config-mail.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/fig/contact-editor.png b/doc/C/fig/contact-editor.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 988ad2f918..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/contact-editor.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/fig/contact.png b/doc/C/fig/contact.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index a9ed02251a..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/contact.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/fig/filter-assist-fig.png b/doc/C/fig/filter-assist-fig.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 5248e0effe..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/filter-assist-fig.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/fig/filter-new-fig.png b/doc/C/fig/filter-new-fig.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index a8b41ca678..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/filter-new-fig.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/fig/mail-composer.png b/doc/C/fig/mail-composer.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 22c16365b5..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/mail-composer.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/fig/mail-druid-pic.png b/doc/C/fig/mail-druid-pic.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index f29f3e77be..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/mail-druid-pic.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/fig/mail-inbox.png b/doc/C/fig/mail-inbox.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index b4f18640b4..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/mail-inbox.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/fig/mainwindow-pic.png b/doc/C/fig/mainwindow-pic.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 28bf487bf9..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/mainwindow-pic.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/fig/print-dest.png b/doc/C/fig/print-dest.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 464705711e..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/print-dest.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/fig/print-preview.png b/doc/C/fig/print-preview.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 7f9a8d661a..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/print-preview.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/fig/vfolder-createrule-fig.png b/doc/C/fig/vfolder-createrule-fig.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 162bebf48c..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/fig/vfolder-createrule-fig.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/C/menuref.sgml b/doc/C/menuref.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index d82191cb17..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/menuref.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1470 +0,0 @@ -<!-- -<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN"> ---> - -<chapter id="menuref"> - <title>Menu Reference</title> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application>'s menus may not hold the - secret to happiness, they do hold every ability that - <application>Evolution</application> has. This section will serve - as a reference for all those menus, and the capabilites that they - offer you. - </para> - <para> - In addition, the editor tools for messages, appointments, and - contacts all have menu bars of their own. From left to right, the - menus available to you when you are reading mail are: - <guimenu>File</guimenu>, <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>, - <guimenu>View</guimenu>, <guimenu>Settings</guimenu>, - <guimenu>Message</guimenu>, <guimenu>Folder</guimenu>and - <guimenu>Help</guimenu>. - - </para> - <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> - - - - <sect1 id="menuref-universal"> - <title>Menus that are the same everywhere</title> - <para> - The <guimenu>File</guimenu> and <guimenu>Help</guimenu> menus in - the main <application>Evolution</application> window do not - change, because they refer to universal items. Other menus have - contents that change depending on context. - </para> - - <sect2 id="menuref-universal-file"> - <title>File Menu</title> - <para> - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guisubmenu>New...</guisubmenu> Submenu</term> - <listitem><para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para> - <guimenuitem>Folder</guimenuitem> — - Create a new folder. See <xref - linkend="usage-mainwindow-folderbar"> - for more information about folders. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para> - <guimenuitem>Shortcut</guimenuitem> — - Create a new Shortcut in the Shortcut Bar. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para> - <guimenuitem>Mail Message</guimenuitem> — - Compose a new mail message. Covered in - <xref linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-send">. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para> - <guimenuitem>Appointment</guimenuitem> — - Enter a new appointment in your calendar. See <xref - linkend="usage-calendar-apts-basic"> for more information. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para> - <guimenuitem>Task</guimenuitem> — - Enter a new to-do item in your taskpad. Covered in - <xref linkend="usage-calendar-todo">. - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Go to Folder</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - View the items in a particular folder. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Create New Folder</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - This item doesn't belong here any more. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Print Message</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Print the current message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Exit</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Quit using <application>Evolution</application>. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-universal-help"> - <title>The Help Menu</title> - <para> - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Help Index</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Displays the table of contents for this document. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Getting Started</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - A quick look around, and a summary of the things - <application>Evolution</application> can do for you. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Using the Mailer</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - An in-depth tour of <application>Evolution</application> Mail. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Using the Calendar</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - A step-by-step guide to using the Calendar. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Using the Contact Manager</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Find your way around the Contact Manager. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Submit Bug Report</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - If you don't report them, they can't fix them. Select this item to let the - developers know what's wrong. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>About Evolution</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Displays a window with information about the application and its authors. - This has the same information as <xref linkend="authors">. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="menuref-exec"> - <title>Executive Summary Menus</title> - <para> - We'll leave this section blank until the UI stabilizes a little - more. - </para> - </sect1> - - - - <sect1 id="menuref-mail"> - <title>Mail Menus</title> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> Mail has more specialized - menus, and more specialized menu items, than any other part of - the application. - </para> - - <sect2 id="menuref-mail-edit"> - <title>The Edit Menu</title> - <para> - This menu is currently empty. - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-mail-view"> - <title>The Mail View Menu</title> - <para> - This menu lets you control the way - <application>Evolution</application> displays your information - for you. - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Show Shortcut Bar</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Toggle the shortcut bar on and off with this item. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Show Folder Bar</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Toggle the folder bar on and off with this item. - See <xref linkend="usage-mainwindow-folderbar"> for - more information about the folder bar. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Threaded Message List</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - This item controls whether your message list is displayed by thread - or by other criteria. The default order is by date; see - <xref linkend="usage-mail-listorder"> for information about the - order of the message list. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-mail-tools"> - <title>The Mail Settings Menu</title> - <para> - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Mail Filters</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Edit your mail filters here. - See <xref linkend="usage-mail-organize-filters"> - for more information about mail filtering. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Virtual Folder Editor</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Create, edit, and delete Virtual Folders (<glossterm>vFolders</glossterm>) - with this tool. - To learn about using vFolders with mail, see - <xref linkend="usage-mail-organize-vfolders">. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Mail Configuration</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Tools for setting up all your mail account preferences. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Manage Subscriptions</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Tools for newsgroup and IMAP folder subscriptions. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Forget Passwords</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - This item will cause <application>Evolution</application> - to forget what your password is. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-mail-folder"> - <title>The Mail Folder Menu</title> - <para> - The items in this menu relate to - <application>Evolution</application> mail folders. - </para> - <para> - You can: - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Mark all as Read</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - <application>Evolution</application> keeps track of which messages - you've seen; to mark everything in a folder as read, choose this item. - You can mark a single message as read by right-clicking it in the message bar. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Delete All</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - This is a favorite item of everyone with too much junk-mail: one click, and it - deletes every message in the current folder. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Expunge</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Empties the trash folder, erasing messages permanently. - Once you've done this, they're gone for good. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Configure Folder</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Use this item to set the file format in which - <application>Evolution</application> stores mail. You - can choose from standard UNIX-style - <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem> - files, or the - <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem> format. - Converting large mailboxes may take a long time, and - it's a good idea to have a backup copy beforehand. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-mail-message"> - <title>The Mail Message Menu</title> - <para> - The items in this menu relate to - <application>Evolution</application> mail messages. Most of - them require you to have a message selected, and are also - available by right-clicking on a message in the message - list. - </para> - <para> - <variablelist> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Open in New Window</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Displays the selected message in a new window. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Edit Message</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Open the selected message in the message composer. You - can only edit a message you have written: drafts and messages in - the <guilabel>Sent</guilabel> box. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Print Message</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Displays the <interface>Print Preview</interface> window, - ready for printing. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Reply to Sender</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Opens a message composition window addressed to the - author of the message. Covered in detail in - <xref linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-send-reply">. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Reply to All</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Opens a message composition window addressed to the - author of the message and all known recipients. - Covered in detail in <xref linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-send-reply">. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Forward</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Appends the body of the selected message to a new message. - Covered in detail in <xref linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-fwd">. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Delete Message</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Marks a message for deletion. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Move Message</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Choose a folder in which to place this message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Copy Message</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Copy the selected message to another folder. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>VFolder on Subject</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - This item, and the three that follow it, will create vFolders - which you may customize further or save as-is. This one will - create a vFolder which will display all messages that contain the - subject line of the selected message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>VFolder on Sender</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Creates a vFolder to hold all messages from the sender of - the selected message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>VFolder on Recipients</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Creates a VFolder to hold all messages addressed to the - recipient of the selected message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Filter on Subject</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - This item, and the three that follow it, will create Filters - for which you must select actions. You may keep the criteria as - they are, or alter them as you wish. This one will - create a filter which will affect all messages that contain the - subject line of the selected message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Filter on Sender</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Creates a filter which affects all messages from the sender of - the selected message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Filter on Recipients</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Creates a filter which will affect all messages addressed to the - recipient of the selected message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-mail-messagelistheader"> - <title>The Message Heading Right-Click Menu</title> - <para> - At the top of the message list is the message list heading - bar; you can click on an individual heading — - <guilabel>Subject</guilabel>, for example, to have the - message list sorted by that attribute. However, if you right - click on a heading, you'll get the following menu: - </para> - - <para> - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Sort Ascending</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Sort the list, in ascending order, by the attribute you clicked. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Sort Descending</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Sort the list in descending order. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Unsort</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Undo any sorting by this attribute, and leave the message list sorted - by the previous one. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Group by this Field</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Instead of sorting the messages, group them in boxes. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Group by Box</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> If you have your messages grouped in - boxes, you can arrange the boxes as well, by choosing - this item. </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Remove this column</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Choose this to remove the column from the message list display. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Field Chooser</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Opens a palette of columns. You can drag the columns - you want from the palette into position in the - message list heading bar; red arrows appear - when you get close enough to a possibile position.</para> - - <para> - Your options are: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para> - <guiicon>An Envelope</guiicon> which indicates whether a message has been read (closed for unread, open for read). - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guiicon>An Exclamation Point</guiicon> for priority - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guiicon>A Penguin</guiicon> which indicates something, although I'm not sure what. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guiicon>A Paper Clip</guiicon> which indicates that there is an attachment to the message. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guilabel>From</guilabel>, for the <guilabel>From</guilabel> field of a message. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para> - <guilabel>Subject</guilabel>, for the <guilabel>Subject</guilabel> field of a message. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guilabel>Date</guilabel>, for the date and time a message was sent. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guilabel>Received</guilabel>, for the date and time you got the message. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guilabel>To</guilabel>, for the <guilabel>To</guilabel> field. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guilabel>Size</guilabel>, for a message's size. - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Alignment</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> Use this item to decide upon the - alignment of the message attributes within their - columns. </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Best Fit</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Alters the width of the message list columns to maximize the amount of information displayed. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Format Columns...</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - This item is not yet available. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Customize - Views...</guimenuitem></term> <listitem><para> Opens a - dialog box that lets you choose a complex set of - arrangements for your message list, so you can combine - sorting and grouping in as many ways as you like. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="menuref-mail-editor"> - <title>The Message Composer Menus</title> - <para> - The message composition window has its own set of menus: - <guimenu>File</guimenu>, which controls operations on files and - data, <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>, for text editing, - <guimenu>Format</guimenu>, which controls the file format of - messages you send, <guimenu>View</guimenu>, to set how you view - the message, and <guimenu>Insert</guimenu>, which holds tools - for embedding files and other items in messages. Here's what's in them: - </para> - <sect2 id="menuref-mail-editor-file"> - <title>The Message Composer's File Menu</title> - <para> - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenu>Open</guimenu></term> - <listitem><para> - Open a text file or a draft mail message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenu>Save</guimenu></term> - <listitem><para> - Save a mail message as a text file. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenu>Save As</guimenu></term> - <listitem><para> - Choose a file name and location for - a message you want to save as a text file. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenu>Save in Folder</guimenu></term> - <listitem><para> - Save a message as a draft, rather than - as a separate text file. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenu>Insert Text File</guimenu></term> - <listitem><para> - Open a text file and insert it into - the current message. (FIXME: belongs under "Insert"). - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenu>Send Now</guimenu></term> - <listitem><para> - Sends the message immediately. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenu>Send Later</guimenu></term> - <listitem><para> - Queue - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenu>Close</guimenu></term> - <listitem><para> - Closes the message composer. If you have not done so, - <application>Evolution</application> - will ask you if you want to save your message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="menuref-mail-editor-edit"> - <title>The Message Composer's Edit Menu</title> - <para> - The <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu in the message composer - contains the following items. Keyboard shortcuts are listed - next to the items in the menus themselves. - - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Undo</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Undoes the last action you performed. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Redo</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - If you change your mind about Undoing something, - you can always use this item. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Cut</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Removes the selected text from the text entry window and - retains it in the system "clipboard" memory, ready for pasting. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Copy</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Copies selected text to the system clipboard without deleting it. - The text can then be inserted elsewhere with the - <guimenuitem>Paste</guimenuitem> command. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Paste</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Inserts the contents of the system clipboard at the - location of the cursor. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Find</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Enter a phrase and find your match in your message body. - As with <guimenuitem>Find Regex</guimenuitem>, - <guimenuitem>Find Again</guimenuitem>, and - <guimenuitem>Replace</guimenuitem>, <application>Evolution</application> - will offer you the option to search forwards or backwards. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Find Regex</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - If you are familiar with <glossterm>regular expressions</glossterm>, - often called "regexes," you can search for something more complicated, - using wildcards and boolean logic. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Find Again</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Repeats your last search. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Replace</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Enter a word or phrase and the word or phrase with which you'd like - to replace it. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - This item brings up the Message Composer Properties Capplet, - a portion of the GNOME Control Center that determines the - key bindings for the message composer. Help for this capplet is - available directly from the Control Center. - (FIXME: Write that help doc too) (FIXME: this is in the wrong place!) - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="menuref-mail-composer-format"> - <title>The Message Composer's Format Menu</title> - <para> - The <guimenu>Format</guimenu> menu has only one item: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>HTML</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Toggles HTML mode for the message composer. When selected, - the message is displayed and sent in HTML. If you have written a - message in HTML and turn HTML off, most formatting will be lost. - <application>Evolution</application> will attempt to preserve spacing - and to remove formatting gracefully, however. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="menuref-mail-composer-view"> - <title>The Message Composer's View Menu</title> - <para> - The <guimenu>View</guimenu> menu controls the way messages are - displayed, and how much of the message, its headers, and - attachments appear. It contains: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Show Attachments</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Toggles the display of attachments. When this item is selected, - <application>Evolution</application> will create a separate pane - of the composition window to show what attachments you are appending - to the message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="menuref-mail-composer-insert"> - <title>The Message Composer's Insert Menu</title> - <para> - The <guimenu>Insert</guimenu> menu holds tools that allow you - to include images, horizontal rules, and other objects - in the body of your message. The tools are: - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Image</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - This tool will prompt you to select an image file to - insert into your HTML message. For text messages, this - is the same as attaching an image file. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Link</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Opens the <interface>link creation window</interface>, - which lets you specify the URL and text description - for a link in your message. This only works with HTML - messages. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Rule</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Opens the<interface> horizontal rule creation dialog</interface>, which lets you - create an HTML horizontal rule. For more information, - see <xref linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-send-html">. - This tool only works with HTML messages. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Text File</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Open a text file and insert it into the current message. - This tool works with both plain text and HTML messages. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="menuref-cal"> - <title>The Calendar Menus</title> - <para> - The Main window of the calendar has the same menus as the main - window of the mail client. However, their contents vary in a - number of ways. - </para> - <sect2 id="menuref-cal-edit"> - <title>The Calendar Edit Menu</title> - <para> - The contents of the Edit menu are currently so borked that I - refuse to document them right now. (That means FIXME). They - should be: - - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Item</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Description - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Item</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Description - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Item</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Description - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="menuref-cal-view"> - <title>The Calendar View Menu</title> - <para> - The Calendar's <guimenu>View</guimenu> menu contains the following items: - - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Show Shortcut Bar</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Toggle the Shortcut Bar on and off with this item. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Show Folder Bar</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Toggle the folder bar on and off with this item. - See <xref linkend="usage-mainwindow-folderbar"> for - more information about the folder bar. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>View By Day</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Switch to the day view for your calendar. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>View Five Days</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - View five calendar days at once. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>View by Week</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Switch the calendar view to full week mode. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>View By Month</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Look at a month at a time. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-cal-settings"> - <title>The Calendar Settings Menu</title> - <para> - This menu is empty. - </para> - </sect2> - - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="menuref-cal-editor"> - <title>The Appointment Editor Menus</title> - <para> - The appointment editor has its own menus, to help you use its - wide-ranging abilities. - </para> - - <sect2 id="menuref-cal-editor-file"> - <title>The Appointment Editor's File Menu</title> - <para> - This menu contains several items, including a <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> submenu - that is identical to that in the - <link linkend="menuref-universal-file">main window's file menu</link>. - Its other contents are: - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Send</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Opens a mail message with the appointment attached to it. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Save</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Save this appointment in the existing location and name. If you have not yet - chosen a location and name, this is the same as <guimenuitem>Save As</guimenuitem>. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Save As</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Choose a location and name for this appointment, and save it. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Deletes the appointment. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Move to Folder</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Chose a folder, and move the appointment into it. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Copy to Folder</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Chose a folder, and put a copy of the appointment into it. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Page Setup Submenu</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - This menu contains two items: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para> - <guimenuitem>Memo Style</guimenuitem> — - FIXME: What does this do? - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guimenuitem>Define Print Styles</guimenuitem> — - FIXME: What does this do? - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Print Preview</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> Shows you what your appointment will look - like if you print it. See <xref linkend="usage-print"> - for details on printing and the Print Preview function. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Print</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Prints the appointment without preview. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - FIXME: What does this do? - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Close</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Close the appointment editor window. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-cal-editor-edit"> - <title>The Appointment Editor's Edit Menu</title> - <para> - FIXME: this menu is copied and pasted entirely from somewhere - else. - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-cal-editor-view"> - <title>The Appointment Editor's View Menu</title> - <para> - This menu allows you to look at different appointments, and - set the way you look at them, without having to move back to - the <interface>Main Window</interface>. It contains: - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guisubmenu>Previous</guisubmenu></term> - <listitem><para> - The items in this submenu will take you to appointments - prior to the current one. (FIXME: describe). - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guisubmenu>Next</guisubmenu></term> - <listitem><para> - The items in this submenu will take you to appointments - scheduled to occur after the current one. (FIXME: describe). - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Calendar</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - FIXME: What does this item do? - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guisubmenu>Toolbars</guisubmenu></term> - <listitem><para> - The <guisubmenu>Toolbars</guisubmenu> submenu - allows you to choose which toolbars - are displayed in the - <interface>Appointment Editor</interface>. They are: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para> - <guimenuitem>Standard</guimenuitem> — - Toggle the standard toolbar on and off. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guimenuitem>Formatting</guimenuitem> — - Toggle the formatting toolbar on and off. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guimenuitem>Customize</guimenuitem> — - Select the contents of the formatting and standard toolbars. - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-cal-editor-insert"> - <title>The Appointment Editor's Insert Menu</title> - <para> - This menu contains: (FIXME: Insert Content Here) - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>File</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Choose a file to append to your appointment or appointment request. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Item</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - FIXME: ? - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Object</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - FIXME: ? - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-cal-editor-format"> - <title>The Appointment Editor's Format Menu</title> - <para> - This menu contains two items, neither of which - have any functionality yet: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Font</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - FIXME: ? - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Paragraph</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - FIXME: ? - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-cal-editor-tools"> - <title>The Appointment Editor's Tools Menu</title> - <para> - This menu contains four items, including the - <guisubmenu>Forms</guisubmenu> submenu, which allows you to - alter calendar forms and create your own entries. None of - this works yet, though. - - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Spelling</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Checks the spelling of your calendar entry. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Check Names</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> Checks the names listed here against - those in your address book. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Address Book</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - FIXME: ? - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guisubmenu>Forms</guisubmenu> Submenu</term> - <listitem><para> - The Forms submenu lets you alter the - appearance of Calendar Forms. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-cal-editor-actions"> - <title>The Appointment Editor's Actions Menu</title> - <para> - This menu contains: - - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Schedule Meeting</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Brings up the <interface>Meeting Invitation</interface> window, - described in <xref linkend="usage-calendar-apts">. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Cancel Invitation</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Cancels the event, notifying all attendees. You may be prompted - to specify an invitation message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Forward as vCalendar</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Opens the message composer with the current event attached. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Forward as Text</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Opens the message composer with a text description of the current - event included in the message body. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-cal-editor-help"> - <title>The Appointment Editor's File Menu</title> - <para> - This menu is empty. - </para> - </sect2> - - </sect1> - - <sect1> - <title>Contact Manager Menus</title> - <para> - The contact manager has six menus: <guimenu>File</guimenu>, - <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>, <guimenu>View</guimenu>, - <guimenu>Setting</guimenu>s, <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>, and - <guimenu>Help</guimenu>. - </para> - - <sect2 id="menuref-contact-edit"> - <title>Contact Manager Edit Menu</title> - <para> - This menu is empty. - </para> - </sect2> - - - <sect2 id="menuref-contact-view"> - <title>Contact Manager View Menu</title> - <para> - This menu contains the following items: - - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Show Shortcut Bar</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Toggle the Shortcut Bar on and off with this item. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Show Folder Bar</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Toggle the folder bar on and off with this item. - See <xref linkend="usage-mainwindow-folderbar"> for - more information about the folder bar. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>As Table</guimenuitem> / <guimenuitem>As Minicards</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - View your contacts as a table. - When in table-view mode, this menu item reads - <guimenuitem>As Minicards</guimenuitem>, and changes the view - back to the minicard format. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="menuref-contact-tools"> - <title>Contact Manager Tools Menu</title> - <para> - This menu contains one item: - - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Search for - Contacts</guimenuitem></term> <listitem><para> Brings up - the in-depth search window. <xref - linkend="contact-search"> describes how to use this - feature. </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - - - <sect2 id="menuref-contact-actions"> - <title>Contact Manager Tools Menu</title> - <para> - This menu contains only one item: - - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>New Directory Server</guimenuitem></term> <listitem><para> Brings up - the in-depth search window. <xref - linkend="config-prefs-contact-ldap-add"> describes how to use this - feature. </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="menuref-contact-editor"> - <title>The Contact Editor Menus</title> - <para> - This window has only one menu: the file menu. - </para> - - <sect2 id="menuref-contact-editor-file"> - <title>Contact Editor File Menu</title> - <para> - This menu contains five items: - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Save</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Save As</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Allows you to save the contact as an external - file in the <glossterm linkend="vcard">VCard</glossterm> format. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Print</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Prints the current contact. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Deletes the current contact. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Close</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Closes the Contact Editor without saving. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - - -</chapter> - - - - - - - diff --git a/doc/C/preface.sgml b/doc/C/preface.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index ddb6a0d2dd..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/preface.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,438 +0,0 @@ -<!-- -<!DOCTYPE preface PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN"> ---> - - <preface id="introduction"> -<!-- =============Introduction ============================= --> - <title>Introduction</title> - - <sect1 id="what"> - <title>What is Evolution, and What Can It Do for Me?</title> - <para> - Information is useless unless it's organized and accessible; - it's hardly even worth the name if you can't look at it and be - <emphasis>informed</emphasis>. - <application>Evolution</application>'s goal is to make the - tasks of storing, organizing, and retrieving your personal - information easier, so you can work and communicate with - others. That is, it's a highly evolved <glossterm - linkend="groupware">groupware</glossterm> program, an integral - part of the Internet-connected desktop. On the inside, it's a - powerful database; on the outside, it's a tool to help you get - your work done. - </para> - <para> - Because it's part of the GNOME project, - <application>Evolution</application> is Free Software. The - program and its source code are released under the terms of - the GNU <ulink type="help" url="gnome-help:gpl"><citetitle>General - Public License (GPL)</citetitle></ulink>, and the - documentation falls under the <ulink type="help" - url="gnome-help:fdl"><citetitle>Free Documentation - License</citetitle></ulink> (FDL). For more information about - the GPL and the FDL, visit the Free Software Foundation's - website at <ulink - url="http://www.fsf.org">http://www.fsf.org</ulink>. - </para> - <para> - <note> - <title>This is a preview release</title> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> is not complete, and - still has a lot of flaws. Please help improve it by - letting us know about them. You should do this by - submitting bug reports with the GNOME <application>Bug - Report Tool</application> (known as - <command>bug-buddy</command> at the command line). - </para> - </note> - </para> - - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> can help you work in a - group by handling email, address and other contact - information, and one or more calendars. It can do that on one - or several computers, connected directly or over a network, - for one person or for large groups. - </para> - <para> - The <application>Evolution</application> project has four - central goals: - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - The application must be <emphasis>both powerful and easy - to use</emphasis>. In other words, it needs a familiar - and intuitive interface that users can customize to their - liking, and users should have access to shortcuts for - complex tasks. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> must meet and - exceed the standards set by other groupware products. - It must include support for major network <glossterm - linkend="protocol">protocols</glossterm> so that it can - integrate seamlessly with existing hardware and network - environments. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - The project must support open standards and be open to - expansion, so that it can become a development platform - as well as an application. From the simplest scripting - to the most complex network and component programming, - <application>Evolution</application> must offer - developers an environment for cutting-edge application - development. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Data must be safe: <application>Evolution</application> - must not lose mail, corrupt mailbox files or other - data, execute arbitrary <glossterm linkend="script">scripts</glossterm>, - or delete files from your hard disk. - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> is designed to make most - daily tasks faster. For example, it takes only one or two - clicks to enter an appointment or an address card sent to you - by email, or to send email to a contact or appointment. - <application>Evolution</application> makes displays faster and - more efficient, so searches are faster and memory usage is - lower. People who get lots of mail will appreciate advanced - features like <link - linkend="usage-mail-organize-vFolders">Virtual Folders</link>, - which let you save searches as though they were ordinary mail - folders. - </para> - - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="aboutbook"> - <title>About This Book</title> - <!-- ************** FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH FOR DRAFT ONLY ************* --> - <para> - This version of the <application>Evolution</application> - User's Guide is a <emphasis>draft</emphasis>. It describes - version 0.6 of the software. It is missing huge - chunks of information, and many of the features it describes - are unimplemented. All the content is subject to change, - especially if you help. Please send comments on the guide to - <email>aaron@ximian.com</email>. If you would like to work - on the guide please contact me or see the GNOME Documentation - project <ulink - url="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp">web - site</ulink>. This paragraph will be removed in later - versions of the manual. - </para> - <!-- ************* END DRAFT ONLY PARAGRAPH ************** --> - - <para> - This book is divided into two parts, with several - appendices. The first part is a <link linkend="usage">guided - tour</link>— it will explain how to use - <application>Evolution</application>. If you are new to - <application>Evolution</application> or to groupware in - general, this section is for you. The second section, covering - <link linkend="config">configuration</link>, is targeted at - more advanced users, but anyone who wants to change the way - <application>Evolution</application> looks or acts can benefit - from reading it. In addition, there is a comprehensive <link - linkend="menuref">menu reference</link> which describes nearly - every capability that <application>Evolution</application> has - to offer. - </para> - <formalpara> - <title>Typographical conventions</title> - <para> - Some kinds of words are marked off with special typography: - <simplelist> - <member><application>Applications</application></member> - <member><command>Commands</command> typed at the command line</member> - <member><guilabel>Labels</guilabel> for interface items</member> - - <member> Menu selections look like this: - <menuchoice> - <guimenu>Menu</guimenu> - <guisubmenu>Submenu</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Menu Item</guimenuitem> - </menuchoice> - </member> - <member><guibutton>Buttons</guibutton> you can - click</member> <member><userinput>Anything you type - in</userinput></member> <member><computeroutput>Text - output from a computer</computeroutput></member> - <member><glossterm linkend="apx-gloss">Words</glossterm> - that are defined in the <xref linkend="apx-gloss">.</member> - </simplelist> - </para> - </formalpara> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="commontasks"> - <title>Quick Reference for Common Tasks</title> - <para> - You might want to copy this section and tape it to - the wall next to your computer: it's a very short summary of - most of the things you'll want to do with - <application>Evolution</application>, and pointers to the - sections of the book where you'll find more in-depth - description of those tasks. - </para> - <sect2 id="quickref-newthings"> - <title>Opening or Creating Anything</title> - <para> - Here are the keyboard shortcuts and menu items you're most - likely to use: - - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Create a new folder</term> - <listitem>` - <para> - <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice> or - <keycombo action="simul"> - <keycap>Ctrl</keycap> - <keycap>Shift </keycap> - <keycap>F</keycap> - </keycombo> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Create a new Shortcut in the Evolution Bar</term> - <listitem> - <para> - <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu> - <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Evolution Bar Shortcut</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> or - <keycombo action="simul"> - <keycap>Ctrl</keycap> - <keycap>Shift</keycap> - <keycap>S</keycap> - </keycombo> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Create a new email message:</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Use - <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Mail - Message</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> or - <keycombo action="simul"> - <keycap>Ctrl</keycap> - <keycap>Shift </keycap> - <keycap>M</keycap> - </keycombo> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Create a new Appointment</term> - <listitem> - <para> - <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu> - <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Appointment</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> or - <keycombo action="simul"> - <keycap>Ctrl</keycap> - <keycap>Shift</keycap> - <keycap>A</keycap> - </keycombo> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term>Enter a new Contact</term> - <listitem> - <para> - <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> - - - <varlistentry> - <term>Create a new Task</term> - <listitem> - <para> - <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu> - <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Task</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> or - <keycombo action="simul"> - <keycap>Ctrl</keycap> - <keycap>Shift</keycap> - <keycap>T</keycap> - </keycombo> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="quickref-mail"> - <title>Mail Tasks</title> - <para> - Here are the most frequent email tasks, and shortcuts for - navigating your mailbox with the keyboard instead of the - mouse: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term>Check Mail</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Click <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton> in the - toolbar. There is no keyboard shortcut for this task, - but you can ask <application>Evolution</application> - to check for new mail periodically. To do so, FIXME. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Reply to a Message</term> - <listitem> - <para> - To reply to the sender of the message only: - click <guibutton>Reply</guibutton> in the - toolbar, or press - <keycombo action="simul"> - <keycap>Ctrl</keycap> - <keycap>R</keycap> - </keycombo> - </para> - <para> - To reply to the sender and all the other visible - recipients of the message, click <guibutton>Reply to - All</guibutton> or select the message and press - <keycombo action="simul"> - <keycap>Shift</keycap> - <keycap>Ctrl</keycap> - <keycap>R</keycap> - </keycombo> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Forward a Message</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Select the message or messages you want to forward, - and click <guibutton>Forward</guibutton> in the - toolbar, or press - <keycombo action="simul"> - <keycap>Ctrl</keycap> - <keycap>J</keycap> - </keycombo> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Open a Message in a New Window</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Double-click the message you want to view, or select - it and press - <keycombo action="simul"> - <keycap>Ctrl</keycap> - <keycap>O</keycap> - </keycombo> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Create Filters and Virtual Folders</term> - <listitem> - <para> - You can create filters and Virtual Folders based on - specific message attributes from the message's - right-click menu. Alternately, select a message, and - then choose <menuchoice> <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> - <guimenuitem>Mail Filters</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> - or <menuchoice> <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> - <guimenuitem>Virtual Folder Editor</guimenuitem> - </menuchoice>. Filters are discussed in <xref - linkend="usage-mail-organize-filters">, and Virtual - Folders in <xref - linkend="usage-mail-organize-vfolders">. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="quickref-cal"> - <title>Calendar</title> - <para> - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term></term> - <listitem> - <para> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="quickref-contact"> - <title>Contact Manager</title> - <para> - - - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term></term> - <listitem> - <para> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - - - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - </preface> - - - - - - - - - - - - diff --git a/doc/C/usage-calendar.sgml b/doc/C/usage-calendar.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index a2c14e99a6..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/usage-calendar.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,371 +0,0 @@ -<!-- -<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN"> ---> - -<chapter id="usage-calendar"> - <title>The Evolution Calendar</title> - <para> - To begin using the calendar, select - <guibutton>Calendar</guibutton> from the <interface>shortcut - bar</interface>. By default, the calendar starts showing today's - schedule on a ruled background. At the upper right, there's a - monthly calendar you can use to switch days. Below that, there's - a <guilabel>TaskPad</guilabel>, where you can keep a list of tasks - seperate from your calendar appointments. The calendar's daily - view is shown in <xref linkend="usage-calendar-fig">. - - <!-- ============== Figure ============================= --> - <figure id="usage-calendar-fig"> - <title>Evolution Calendar View</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Evolution Contact Manager Window</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/calendar" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> - <!-- ============== End of Figure ============================= --> - - </para> - <sect1 id ="usage-calendar-view"> - <title>Ways of Looking at your Calendar</title> - - <para> - The toolbar offers you four different views of your calendar: - one day, five days, a week, or a month at once. Press the - calendar-shaped buttons on the right side of the toolbar to - switch between views. You can also select a range of - days— three days, ten days, a fortnight if you want - — in the small calendar at the upper right. - </para> - <para> - The <guibutton>Prev</guibutton> and <guibutton>Next</guibutton> - buttons will move you forward and back in your calendar pages. - If you're looking at only one day, you'll see tomorrow's page, - or yesterday's. If you're looking at your calendar by week, - month, fortnight, or anything else, you'll move around by just - that much. To come back to today's listing, click - <guibutton>Today</guibutton>. - </para> - <para> - To visit a specific date's calendar entries, click - <guibutton>Go To</guibutton> and select the date in the dialog - box that appears. - </para> - - -<!-- ############### FIXME FIXME FIXME ############ -Feature not yet implemented, and may not be implemented due to -lack of time, resources, and interest. - <para> - In addition, <application>Evolution</application> supports - Hebrew, Muslim, and other calendar formats. To switch to a - different calendar format, choose - <guimenuitem>GUIMENUITEM</guimenuitem> from the - <guimenu>GUIMENU</guimenu>. - </para> -################ END FIXME AREA ################## --> - - </sect1> - <sect1 id="usage-calendar-apts"> - <title>Scheduling With the Evolution Calendar</title> - <para> - Of course, you'll want to use the calendar to do more than find - out what day it is. This section will tell you how to schedule - events, set alarms, and determine event recurrence. - </para> - <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-basic"> - <title>Creating events</title> - <para> - To create a new calendar event, select - <menuchoice> - <guimenu>File</guimenu> - <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Appointment</guimenuitem> - </menuchoice> - or click the <guibutton>New</guibutton> button on the left end - of the toolbar. The <interface>New Appointment</interface> - dialog will pop up with the usual menu bar, tool bar, and - window full of choices for you. - </para> - <tip id="new-appointment-shortcut"> - <title>Shortcut</title> - <para> - If you don't need to enter more information than the date - and time of the appointment, you just click in any blank - space in the calendar and start typing. You can enter other - information later with the appointment editor. - </para> - </tip> - - <para> - Your event must have a starting and ending date — by - default, today — but you can choose whether to give it - starting and ending times or to mark it as an <guilabel>All - day event</guilabel>. An <guilabel>All day event</guilabel> - appears at the top of a day's event list rather than inside - it. That makes it easy to have events that overlap and fit - inside each other. For example, a conference might be an all - day event, and the meetings at the conference would be timed - events. Of course, events with specific starting and ending - times can also overlap. When they do they're displayed as - multiple columns in the day view of the calendar. - </para> - <note> - <title>Doing Two Things At Once</title> - <para> - If you create calendar events that overlap, - <application>Evolution</application> will display them side - by side in your calendar. However, - <application>Evolution</application> cannot help you do - multiple things at once. - </para> - </note> - <para> - You can have as many as four different - <guilabel>Alarms</guilabel>, any time prior to the event - you've scheduled. You can have one alarm of each type: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Display</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - A window will pop up on your screen to remind you of - your event. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Audio</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Choose this to have your computer deliver a sound - alarm. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Program</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Select this if you would like to run a program as a - reminder. You can enter its name in the text field, - or find it with the <guibutton>Browse</guibutton> - button. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Mail</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> will send an - email reminder to the address you enter into the text - field. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - - </para> - <para> - <guilabel>Classification</guilabel> is a little more - complicated, and only applies to calendars on a - network. <guilabel>Public</guilabel> is the default category, - and a public event can be viewed by anyone on the calendar - sharing network. <guilabel>Private</guilabel> denotes one - level of security, and <guilabel>Confidential</guilabel> a - higher level. <!-- FIXME --> Exact determinations and - implementations of this feature have yet to be - determined. <!-- FIXME --> - </para> - <para> - The <guilabel>Recurrence</guilabel> tab lets you describe - repetition in events ranging from once every day up to once - every 100 years. You can then choose a time and date when the - event will stop recurring, and, under - <guilabel>Exceptions</guilabel>, pick individual days when the - event will <emphasis>not</emphasis> recur. Make your - selections from left to right, and you'll form a sentence: - "Every two weeks on Monday and Friday until January 3, 2003" - or "Every month on the first Friday for 12 occurrences." - </para> - - <para> - Once you're done with all those settings, click on the disk - icon in the toolbar. That will save the event and close the - event editor window. If you want, you can alter an event - summary in the calendar view by clicking on it and typing. You - can change other settings by right-clicking on the event then - choosing <guimenuitem>Edit this Appointment</guimenuitem>. - </para> - </sect2> - -<!-- ############UNIMPLEMENTED FEATURES ################### - - <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-group"> - <title>Appointments for Groups</title> - <para> - If you have your calendar set up to work with other - calendars over a network, you can see when others are - available to meet with you. - </para> - <note> - <title>Unimplemented Feature</title> - <para>This feature is not yet implemented.</para> - </note> - - <para> - In addition, you can use <application>Evolution</application> - to mark a meeting request on another person's calendar. To do - it, click <guibutton>New</guibutton> in the calendar toolbar, - or select <menuchoice> <guimenu>File</guimenu> - <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Appointment</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> to bring - up the <interface>new event</interface> window. Then describe - the event as you would any other. Before you click - <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, (INSERT DESCRIPTION HERE...). - <application>Evolution</application> will automatically send - email to each person on the request list, notifying of the - time and date of the meeting you have requested with them. In - addition, it will mark the event on your calendar and on - theirs as tentative, rather than a confirmed, event. - </para> - <para> - To mark a tentative event as confirmed, click once on the - event in the <interface>calendar view</interface> to select - it, and then choose <guimenuitem>Event - Properties</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> - menu. In the <interface>Event Properties</interface> dialog - window, click the "tentative" button to De-select the - event. - </para> - </sect2> - - - <sect2 id="usage-calendar-apts-privs"> - <title>Scheduling privileges</title> - <para> - There are several levels of scheduling privileges. You - can set whether people can see your calendar, whether they - can request meetings or appointments, and whether they can - create appointments. This section may have to be deleted, - because I don't know if we are going to support privileges - at all. - </para> - </sect2> - ########## END UNIMPLEMENTED FEATURESET ############ --> - - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="usage-calendar-todo"> - <title>The Task Pad</title> - <para> - The Task Pad, located in the lower right corner of the - calendar, lets you keep a list of tasks separate from your - calendar events. Tasks are colored and sorted by priority and - due-date (see <xref linkend="config-prefs"> for more - information), and are included with calendar data during - synchronization with a hand-held device. You can use the list - in a larger format by choosing the <guibutton>Tasks</guibutton> - button in the shortcut bar or in the folder tree. - </para> - <para> - To record a new task, click the <guibutton>Add</guibutton> - button below the list. <application>Evolution</application> - will pop up a small window with five items in it: - - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term> <guilabel>Summary:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - The description you enter here will appear in the To Do - list itself. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term> <guilabel>Due Date:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Decide when this item is - due. You can either type in a date and time, or select one from - the <guibutton>Calendar</guibutton> and time drop-down menus. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Priority:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Select a level of importance from 1 (most important) to 9 - (least important). - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term> <guilabel>Item Comments:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - If you wish, you can keep a more detailed description of - the item here. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - <para> - Once you've added a task to your to-do list, its summary - appears in the <guilabel>Summary</guilabel> section of task - list. To view or edit a detailed description of an item, - double-click on it, or select it and click - <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>. You can delete items by selecting - them and clicking on the <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> button. - </para> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="usage-calendar-multiple"> - <title>Multiple Calendars</title> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> permits you to have and - maintain multiple calendars. This is useful if you maintain - schedules for other people, if you are responsible for resource - or room allocation, or if you have multiple personalities. - </para> - - <example> - <title>Keeping Multiple Calendars</title> - <para> - Keelyn, the office manager for a small company, has one - calendar for her own schedule. On the local network, she - maintains one for the conference room, so people know when - they can schedule meetings. Next to that, she maintains a - calendar that reflects when consultants are going to be on - site, and another that keeps track of when the Red Sox are - playing. - </para> - </example> - <para> - To create a new calendar, select - <menuchoice> - <guimenu>File</guimenu> <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Calendar</guimenuitem> - </menuchoice>. - You can place the calendar in any calendar folder and access it - from the folder view. Alarms, configuration, and display for - each calendar are separate from each other. - </para> - - </sect1> -</chapter> - - - - - - - - - - diff --git a/doc/C/usage-contact.sgml b/doc/C/usage-contact.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 0c6b976e4d..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/usage-contact.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,617 +0,0 @@ -<!-- -<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN"> ---> - -<chapter id="usage-contact"> - <title>The Evolution Address Book</title> - <abstract> - <para> - The <application>Evolution</application> address book can - handle all of the functions of an address book, phone book, or - Rolodex. Of course, it's a lot easier to update - <application>Evolution</application> than it is to change an - actual paper book. <application>Evolution</application> also - allows easy synchronization with hand-held devices. Since - <application>Evolution</application> supports the <glossterm - linkend="ldap">LDAP</glossterm> directory protocol, you can use - it with almost any type of existing directory server on your - network. - </para> - <para> - Another advantage of the <application>Evolution</application> - address book is its integration with the rest of the - application. When you look for someone's address, you can also - see a history of appointments with that person. Or, you can - create address cards from emails with just a few clicks. In - addition, searches and folders work in the same way they do in - the rest of Evolution. - </para> - <para> - This chapter will show you how to use the - <application>Evolution</application> address book to organize - any amount of contact information, share addresses over a - network, and several ways to save time with everyday tasks. To - learn about configuring the address book, see <xref - linkend="config-prefs-contact">. - </para> - </abstract> - <sect1 id="usage-contact-basic"> - <title>Getting Started With the Address Book</title> - - <para> - To open up your address book, click on - <guibutton>Contacts</guibutton> in the shortcut bar, or select - one of your contacts folders from the folder bar. <xref - linkend="usage-contact-fig"> shows the address book in all - its organizational glory. By default, the address book - shows all your cards in alphabetical order, in a <glossterm - linkend="minicard">minicard</glossterm> format. You can select - other views from the <guimenu>View</guimenu> menu, and adjust - the width of the columns by clicking and dragging the grey - column dividers. - </para> - - - <figure id="usage-contact-fig"> - <title>Evolution Address Book</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Evolution Address Book Window</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/contact" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> - - <para> - The toolbar for the address book is quite simple: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para> - <guibutton>New</guibutton> creates a new card. - </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. - </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 the whole contents. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> <guibutton>Stop</guibutton> stops loading - contact data from the network. This button is only - relevant if you are looking at contact information on a - network. </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - - <para> - Your contact information fills the rest of the display. Move - through the cards alphabetically with the buttons and the - scrollbar at the right of the window. Of course, if you have - more than a few people listed, you'll want some way of finding - them more quickly, which is why there's a search feature. - </para> - - <sect2 id="contact-search"> - <title>Searching for Contacts</title> - <para> - Between <guilabel>Delete</guilabel> and <guilabel>View - All</guilabel> is a quick search field. To use it, select - from the drop-down list which sort of search you'd like to - perform (the whole card, just the name, or just the email - address), then enter one or more words in the text entry - box, and press <keycap>Enter</keycap>. - <application>Evolution</application> will search through - the contents of every displayed card to find one that - matches. You can refine searches by doing several in - succession, or start over by pressing the <guibutton>View - All</guibutton> button. - </para> - <para> - If there are no matches, the card display will be - blank. When you'd like to see all the cards again, press - <guilabel>Show All</guilabel>. - </para> - <example id="contact-quicksearch-ex"> - <title>Refining a Quick Search</title> - <para> - Tom comes back from lunch and finds a note on his - keyboard: "Curtis in sales called for you, but he didn't - leave a number, and I forgot to write down the name of the - company he works for. He said it was important, though." - Tom is not at all annoyed. - </para> - <para> - He opens his contacts folder, and runs a quick search for - "Curtis." There are eighteen different people with that name - in the file. He then enters "Sales," and - <application>Evolution</application> narrows it down to the - right Curtis. He only becomes annoyed when he discovers that - the call was not actually important. - </para> - </example> - - <para> - If you prefer to perform a more complex search, press - <guibutton>Find</guibutton> or choose - <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guimenuitem>Search for - Contact</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. This will open the - in-depth search window, which lets you use multiple search - criteria in the same way that email filters and <glossterm - linkend="vfolder">virtual folders</glossterm> do.. </para> - <para> - Click <guibutton>Add Criterion</guibutton> to increase the - number of criteria you'd like to use in the search, and - <guibutton>Remove Criterion</guibutton> to remove one from the - bottom of the list. Your criteria may be a search within the - <guilabel>Name</guilabel> or <guilabel>Email</guilabel> - fields; alternately you can choose to search through all the - fields with a regular expression. Then, you can select from - all the familiar requirements like <guilabel>Begins - With</guilabel> and <guilabel>Does Not Contain</guilabel>, - decide whether to match <guilabel>All</guilabel> or - <guilabel>Any</guilabel> of your criteria, and press - <guibutton>Search</guibutton> to set it all off. - </para> - - </sect2> - - </sect1> - <sect1 id="usage-contact-cards"> - <title>Destroy, Create, and Change: The Contact Editor</title> - <para> - To delete a card, click on it once to select it, then press the - <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> button. If you have multiple - cards selected, you'll delete multiple cards. - </para> - <para> - If you want to add or change cards, you'll use the contact - editor. To change a card that already exists, double click on - it to open the contact editor window with all the current - information already filled in. If you want to create a new - one, clicking the <guibutton>New</guibutton> button in the - toolbar will open the same window, with blank entry boxes for - you to fill in. - </para> - - <para> - The contact editor window has two tabs, - <guilabel>General</guilabel>, for basic contact information, - and <guilabel>Details</guilabel>, for a more specific - description of the person. In addition, it contains a - <guimenu>File</guimenu> menu, (see <xref - linkend="menuref-contact-editor">) and a toolbar with three - items: <guilabel>Save and Close</guilabel>, - <guilabel>Print</guilabel>, and <guilabel>Delete</guilabel>. - </para> - - <figure id="usage-contact-editor-fig"> - <title>Evolution Contact Editor</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Evolution Contact Editor</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/contact-editor.png" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> - - <para> The <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab has seven sections, - each with an icon: a face, for name and company; a telephone - for phone numbers; an envelope for email address; a globe for - web page address; a house for postal address; a file folder - for contacts, and a briefcase for categories. - </para> - <para> - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Full Name</term> - <listitem> - <para> - The <guilabel>Full Name</guilabel> field has two - major features: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - You can enter a name into the <guibutton>Full - Name</guibutton> field, but you can also click the - <guibutton>Full Name</guibutton> button to bring - up a small dialog box with a few text boxes - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Title: </guilabel></term> - <listitem> <para> - Enter an honorific or select one from the menu. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>First: </guilabel></term> - <listitem> <para> - Enter the first, or given, name. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Middle: </guilabel></term> - <listitem> <para> - Enter the middle name or initial, if any. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Last: </guilabel></term> - <listitem> <para> - Enter the last name (surname). - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Suffix: </guilabel></term> - <listitem> <para> - Enter suffixes such as "Jr." or "III." - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - The <guilabel>Full Name</guilabel> field also - interacts with the <guilabel>File As</guilabel> - box to help you organize your contacts. - </para> - <para> - To see how it works, type a name in the - <guilabel>Full Name</guilabel> field: - <userinput>Rupert T. Monkey</userinput>. You'll - notice that the <guilabel>File As</guilabel> field - also fills up, but in reverse: - <computeroutput>Monkey, Rupert</computeroutput>. - You can pick <computeroutput>Rupert Monkey - </computeroutput> from the drop-down, or type in - your own, such as <userinput> T. Rupert Monkey - </userinput>. - </para> - <tip> - <title>Filing Suggestion</title> - - <para> - Don't enter something entirely different from - the actual name, since you might forget that - you've filed Rupert's information under "F" for - "Fictitious Ximian Employee." - </para> - </tip> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <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 - <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 - telephone and postal address fields work in the same - way. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - <para> - The last item in the <guilabel>General</guilabel> tab is the - <guilabel>Categories</guilabel> organization tool; for - information on that, read <xref - linkend="usage-contact-organize">. - </para> - <para> - The <guilabel>Details</guilabel> tab is, fortunately, much more - simple: three sections, all of which are more or less obvious: - the briefcase next to the details about the contact's - professional life; the face next to the details about their - personal life; the globe next to a big blank space you can use - for anything and everything else you'd like to note about them. - If you ever wanted to have that uncanny knack for remembering - obscure details like the date of someone's anniversary (perhaps - your own) this is the way to develop it. - </para> - - - - -<!--- ############# This section isn't implemented yet either: - <sect2> - <title></title> - <para> - <tip> - <title>Contact Shortcuts</title> - <para> - You can add cards from within an email message or calendar - appointment. While looking at an email, right-click on - any email address or message, and choose - <guimenuitem>Create Card for this Address</guimenuitem> or - <guimenuitem>Create Card for this Sender</guimenuitem> - from the menu. While looking at a calendar appointment, - right-click any email address, and choose - <guimenuitem>Create Card for this Address</guimenuitem>. - (NOTE that feature may change! unimplemented!) - </para> - </tip> - </para> - <para> - You can move cards around just as you would move email - messages: dragging and dropping works, as does right-clicking - and choosing <guimenuitem>Move</guimenuitem> from the menu - that appears. - </para> - </sect2> -############### SHORTCUT SECTION COMMENTED OUT FOR NOW --> - - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="usage-contact-organize"> - <title>Organizing your Address Book</title> - <para> - Organizing your address book is a lot like organizing your - mail. You can have folders and searches the same way you can - with mail, but the address book does not allow vFolders. It - does, however, allow each card to fall under several - categories, and allow you to create your own categories. To - learn about categories, read <xref - linkend="usage-contact-organize-group-category">. - </para> - -<!-- - <para> - Another useful <application>Evolution</application> feature is - its ability to recognize when people live or work together. If - several people in your address book share an address, and you - change the address for one of them, - <application>Evolution</application> will ask you if you wish to - change the address for all of them, or just for one. - </para> ---> - - <sect2 id="usage-contact-organize-group"> - <title>Groups of contacts</title> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> offers two ways for you - to organize your cards. The first way is to use folders; - this works the same way that mail folders do. For more - flexibility, you can also mark contacts as members of - different categories. - </para> - - <sect3 id="usage-contact-organize-group-folder"> - <title>Grouping with Folders</title> - <para> - The simplest way to group address cards is to use folders. - By default, cards start in the - <guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> folder. If you've read <xref - linkend="usage-mainwindow"> then you already know that you - can create a new folder by selecting - <menuchoice> - <guimenu>File</guimenu> - <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Folder</guimenuitem> - </menuchoice> - and that you can put new folders anywhere you like. Just - like with mail, cards must be in a card folder, and no card - can be in two places at once. If you want more - flexibility, try <xref - linkend="usage-contact-organize-group-category">. - </para> - <para> - To put a card into a folder, just drag it there from the - folder view. Remember that contact cards can only go in - contact folders, just like mail can only go in mail folders, - and calendars in calendar folders. - </para> - </sect3> - - <sect3 id="usage-contact-organize-group-category"> - <title>Grouping with Categories</title> - <para> - The other way to group cards is to mark them as belonging - to different categories. The difference between folders - and categories is that folders contain cards, but category - membership is a property of each card. That means that you - can mark a card as being in several categories or no - category at all. For example, I put my friend Matthew's - card in the "Business" category, because he works with me, - the "Friends" category, because he's also my friend, and - the "Frequent" category, because I call him all the time - and can never remember his phone number. - </para> - <para> - To mark a card as belonging to a category, click the - <guibutton>Categories</guibutton> button at the lower - right. From the dialog box that appears, you can check as - many or as few categories as you like. - </para> - <para> - Then, you can refer to all the cards in that category by: - <!-- FIXME --> Waiting for Evolution to support the - operation. - </para> - - <!-- FIXME: Feature Not Implemented - <para> - - If the master list of categories doesn't suit you, you can - add your own. Just enter the new category's name in the - text box, then click <guibutton>Categories</guibutton> and - choose <guilabel>Add to Master List</guilabel> in the - window that appears. - </para> - --> - - </sect3> - </sect2> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="usage-contact-sharing"> - <title>Sharing your Cards</title> - <para> - If you keep your cards on a network using an <glossterm - linkend="ldap">LDAP</glossterm> server, you can share access to - them, browse other address books, or maintain a shared set of - contact information for your company or your department. This - is the sort of feature you'll want to use if your company has a - list of vendors and clients that needs constant updating. If - share calendars as well as address books, people can avoid - duplicating work and keep up to date on developments within - their work-group or across the entire company. - </para> - - <example id="usage-contact-sharing-ex"> - <title>Sharing Address Cards and Calendar Data</title> - <para> - Ray wants to schedule a meeting with Company X, so he - checks the network for the Company X address card so he - knows whom to call there. Since his company also shares - calendars, he then learns that his co-worker Deanna has - already scheduled a meeting with Company X next Thursday. - He can either go to the meeting himself or ask Deanna to - discuss his concerns for him. Either way, he avoids - scheduling an extra meeting with Company X. - </para> - </example> - <para> - Of course, you don't want to share all of your cards— why - overload the network with a list of babysitters or tell - everyone in the office you're talking to new job prospects? If - you keep cards on your own computer, you can decide which items - you want to make accessible to others. - </para> - <para> - To learn how to add a remote directory to your available - contact folders, see <xref linkend="config-prefs-contact">. - Once you have a connection, the network contacts folder or - folders will appear inside the <guilabel>External - Directories</guilabel> folder in the folder bar. It will work - exactly like a local folder of cards, with the following - exceptions: - <itemizedlist> - - <listitem> - <para> - Network folders are only available when you are - connected to the network. If you use a laptop or have a - modem connection, you may wish to copy or cache the - network directory and then synchronize your copy with - the networked version periodically. <!-- FIXME: HOW? --> - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - To prevent excess network traffic, - <application>Evolution</application> will not normally - load the contents of LDAP folders immediately upon - opening. You must click <guilabel>Display - All</guilabel> before LDAP folder cards will be loaded - from the network. You can change this behavior in the - <interface>Contact Preferences</interface> window. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Your ability to view, change, add, and delete contacts - depends on the settings of the LDAP server. - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="usage-contact-automate"> - <title>Address Book Tools</title> - <para> - The address book works closely with - <application>Evolution</application>'s mail and calendar tools. - For example, you can use the address book to help you manage - mailing lists, and send or recieve address cards over email. - More tools are on the way, and when they arrive, <!-- FIXME --> - they will be described in this section. - </para> - - <sect2 id="contact-automation-basic"> - <title>Send me a Card: Adding New Cards Quickly</title> - <para> - As noted before, when you get information about a person in - the mail or in a calendar entry, you can add it to an address - card. To do so, right click on any email address or email - message, and select <guimenuitem>Add Address - Card</guimenuitem> from the menu that appears. Of course, - <application> Evolution</application> also adds cards from a - hand-held device during HotSync operation. For more - information about that, see <xref linkend="usage-sync">. - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="contact-automation-lists"> - <title>Managing a Mailing list</title> - <para> - You already know that when you are writing an email, you can - address it to one or more people, and that - <application>Evolution</application> will fill in addresses - from your address book's address cards if you let it. In - addition to that, you can send email to everyone in a - particular group if you choose. - </para> - -<!-- FIXME this feature not yet implemented - - <para> - You can also use the address book to print postal addresses - on mailing labels. Future versions of - <application>Evolution</application> will allow you to you - export a group of cards to a spreadsheet, database, or word - processor so you can print address labels or prepare large - mailings. - </para> - --> - - </sect2> -<!--- FIXME this feature not yet implemented - <sect2 id="usage-contact-automation-extra"> - <title>Map It!</title> - <para> - Need a map or directions? Click - <guibutton>MapIt</guibutton> from within the contact - manager, and <application>Evolution</application> will - map the address for you online. - </para> - </sect2> ---> - - - </sect1> - -</chapter> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - diff --git a/doc/C/usage-exec-summary.sgml b/doc/C/usage-exec-summary.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 5ff67029d7..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/usage-exec-summary.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,91 +0,0 @@ -<chapter id="usage-exec-summary"> - <title>The Executive Summary</title> - <para> - The Evolution Executive Summary is designed to show you a - summary of important information: the appointments for a given - day, important email, and so forth. To see your executive - summary, click on the <guibutton>Executive Summary</guibutton> - button in the shortcut bar, or select the - <guilabel>executive-summary</guilabel> folder in the folder - bar. - </para> - - <sect1 id="exec-intro"> - <title>Introducing the Executive Summary</title> - <para> - The first thing you'll want to do with the executive summary - is add a service. Click the <guibutton>Add Service</guibutton> - button in the toolbar, then select one of the available - services. Services may vary depending upon your system, but - most installations will have at least the following options: - - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Calendar</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Pending appointments and other events. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Inbox</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Information about your mail, such as the number of - new messages you have waiting. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>To Do</term> - <listitem> - <para> - A short summary of your task pad. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>RDF Summary</term> - <listitem> - <para> - News headlines for any valid RDF file. The default - is news about the GNOME project from <ulink - url="www.gnome.org/gnome-news/">gnotices</ulink>. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - </variablelist> - - </para> - - <para> - Each service appears in a small box on the screen; you can - remove the service by clicking the <guibutton>x</guibutton> - button in the upper right, or bring up a settings dialog by - clicking the little wrench icon below that. - </para> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="exec-services-detail"> - <title>Services in Detail</title> - <para> - This section will show you how to use several - <application>Evolution</application> services. - - </para> - - </sect1> - -</chapter> - - - - - - - diff --git a/doc/C/usage-mail.sgml b/doc/C/usage-mail.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 9ec12d9e5b..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/usage-mail.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1539 +0,0 @@ -<!-- -<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN"> ---> - -<chapter id="usage-mail"> - <title>Evolution Mail</title> - <abstract> - <title> An Overview of the Evolution Mailer</title> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> email is like other email - programs in all the ways you would hope: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - It can sort and organize your mail in a wide variety of ways with - folders, searches, and filters. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - It can send and receive mail in HTML or as plain text, and - permits multiple file attachments. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - It supports multiple mail sources, including <glossterm - linkend="imap">IMAP</glossterm>, <glossterm - linkend="pop">POP3</glossterm>, local - <systemitem><filename>mbox</filename></systemitem> and - <systemitem><filename>mh</filename></systemitem> files, and - even NNTP messages (newsgroups), which aren't technically - email. - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - <para> - However, <application>Evolution</application> has some important - differences. First, it's built to handle very large amounts of - mail without slowing down or crashing. Both the <link - linkend="usage-mail-organize-filters">filtering</link> and <link - linkend="usage-mail-organize-search">searching</link> functions - were built for speed and efficiency on gargantuan volumes of - mail. There's also the <application>Evolution</application> - <link linkend="usage-mail-organize-vFolders">Virtual - Folder</link>, an advanced organizational feature not found in - other mail clients. If you get a lot of mail, or if you keep - every message you get in case you need to refer to it later, - you'll find this feature especially useful. - </para> - </abstract> - - <sect1 id="usage-mail-getnsend"> - <title>Reading, Getting and Sending Mail</title> - - <sect2 id="usage-mail-getnsend-read"> - <title>Reading Mail</title> - <para> - You can start reading email by clicking - <guibutton>Inbox</guibutton> in the shortcut bar. The first - time you use <application>Evolution</application>, it will - start with the <interface>Inbox</interface> open and show you a - message from Ximian welcoming you to the application. - </para> - <para> - Your <application>Evolution</application> - <guilabel>Inbox</guilabel> will look something like the one in - <xref linkend="usage-mail-intro-fig">. Just below the toolbar - is the <interface>message list</interface>, showing message - header information like <guilabel>Subject</guilabel> and - <guilabel>Date</guilabel>. The message itself appears below - that, in the <interface>view pane</interface>. If you find - the <interface>view pane</interface> too small, you can resize - the pane, enlarge the whole window, or double-click on the - message in the <interface>message list</interface> to have it - open in a new window. Just like with folders, you can - right-click on messages in the message list and get a menu of - possible actions. - </para> - - <!-- ==============Figure=================================== --> - - <figure id="usage-mail-intro-fig"> - <title>Evolution Mail</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Inbox</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/mail-pic" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> -<!-- ==============End of Figure============================== --> - - <para> - Most of the mail-related actions you'll want to perform are - listed in the <guimenu>Message</guimenu> menu in the menu - bar. The most frequently used ones, like - <guimenuitem>Reply</guimenuitem> and - <guimenuitem>Forward</guimenuitem>, also appear as buttons in - the toolbar, and almost all of them are duplicated in the - right-click menu and as keyboard shortcuts, which tend to be - faster once you get the hang of them. You can choose - whichever way you like best; the idea is that the software - should work the way you want, rather than making you work the - way the it does. - <tip id="view-headers"> - <title>Take a look at the headers</title> - <para> - To look at the entire source of your email message, including - all the header information, select - <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Source</guimenuitem></menuchoice> - </para> - </tip> - </para> - - <sect3 id="usage-mail-listorder"> - <title>Sorting the message list</title> - <para> - One of the ways <application>Evolution</application> lets - you choose the way you work is the way it lets you sort your - message lists. To sort by sender, subject, or date, click - on the bars with those labels at the top of the message - list. The direction of the arrow next to the label indicates - the direction of the sort, and if you click again, you'll - sort them in reverse order. For example, click once on - <guilabel>Date</guilabel> to sort messages by date from - oldest to newest. Click again, and - <application>Evolution</application> sorts the list from - newest to oldest. You can also right-click on the message - header bars to get a set of sorting options, and add or - remove columns from the message list. You can find detailed - instructions on how to customize your message display - columns in <xref linkend="usage-mail-organize-columns">. - </para> - <para> - You can also choose a threaded message view. Select - <menuchoice> <guimenu>View</guimenu> - <guimenuitem>Threaded</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> to turn - the threaded view on or off. When you select this option, - <application>Evolution</application> groups the replies to a - message with the original, so you can follow the thread of a - conversation from one message to the next. - </para> - </sect3> - <sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-delete"> - <title>Deleting Mail</title> - <para> - Once you've read your mail, you may want to get rid of - it. To mark a message for deletion, select it in the the - <interface>message list</interface> by clicking on it once. - Then click on the <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> button in - the tool bar. Or, right-click on a message and choose - <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem> from the right-click - menu. The message will appear with a line through it, to - show that you've marked it for deletion. - </para> - <para> - If you change your mind and decide you want to keep it, - select <menuchoice> <guimenu>Message</guimenu> - <guimenuitem>Undelete</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. If you - really want to get rid of it, choose - <guimenuitem>Expunge</guimenuitem> from the - <guimenu>Folder</guimenu> menu. That will delete it - permanently. - </para> - </sect3> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="usage-mail-getnsend-get"> - <title>Checking Mail</title> - <para> - Now that you've had a look around the - <interface>Inbox</interface>, it's time to check for new mail. - Click <guibutton>Get mail</guibutton> in the toolbar to check - your mail. If it's the first time you've done so, the - <interface>mail setup assistant</interface> will ask you for - the information it needs to check your mail (see <xref - linkend="config-setupassist"> for more information). - </para> - <para> - Then, you need to enter your email - password. <application>Evolution</application> will remember - your password until until you select <menuchoice> - <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Forget - Passwords</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>. - </para> - <para> - Once it's validated the password, - <application>Evolution</application> will check your mail. - New mail will appear in the local <interface>Inbox</interface> - if you're using a <glossterm>POP</glossterm> account, and in - your <glossterm>IMAP</glossterm> folders if you use IMAP. If - you have chosen to use IMAP, and you have multiple folders on - your IMAP server, you may need to subscribe to them. To learn - how to use the subscription manager, read <xref - linkend="usage-mail-subscriptions">. - </para> - - <note id="badmailsettings"> - <title>Can't Check Mail?</title> - <para> - If you get an error message instead of mail, you probably need - to change your network settings. To learn how to do that, - have a look at <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail-network">, or - ask your system administrator. - </para> - </note> - - <sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-get-news"> - <title>Using Evolution for News </title> - <para> - Newsgroups are so similar to email that there's no reason not - to read them side by side. If you want to do that, add a - news source to your configuration (see <xref - linkend="config-prefs-network-news">). The news server will - appear as a remote server, and will look quite similar to an - IMAP folder. When you click <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton>, - <application>Evolution</application> will also check for news - messages. - </para> - </sect3> - - <sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-get-attach"> - <title>Attachments and HTML Mail</title> - <para> - If someone sends you an <glossterm>attachment</glossterm>, a - file attached to an email, - <application>Evolution</application> will display the file - at the bottom of the message to which it's attached. Text, - HTML, and most images will be displayed within the message - itself. For other files, - <application>Evolution</application> will show an icon at - the end of the message. Right-click on the icon to get a - list of options which will vary depending on the type of - attachment. You will have the option to display most files - as part of the message, export them to a different - application (images to Eye of GNOME, spreadsheets to - Gnumeric, and so forth), or save them to disk. - </para> - - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> can also display - HTML-formatted mail, complete with graphics. HTML - formatting will display automatically, although you can - turn it off if you prefer. - </para> - </sect3> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send"> - <title>Writing and Sending Mail</title> - <para> - You can start writing a new email message by selecting - <menuchoice> <guimenu>File</guimenu> - <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> <guimenuitem> - Mail Message</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, or by pressing the - <guibutton>Compose</guibutton> button in the Inbox toolbar. - When you do so, the <interface>New Message</interface> window - will open, as shown in <xref - linkend="usage-mail-newmsg-fig">. - </para> - -<!-- ==============Figure=================================== --> - <figure id="usage-mail-newmsg-fig"> - <title>New Message Window</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Evolution Main Window</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/newmsg-pic" format="png" srccredit="Kevin Breit"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> -<!-- ==============End of Figure=================================== --> - - <!-- Check the alignment of the following paragraph in the PS and - HTML output: it's indented for no good reason --> - <para> - Enter an address in the <guilabel>To:</guilabel> field, a - subject in the <guilabel>Subject:</guilabel> and a message in - the big empty box at the bottom of the window, and press - <guibutton>Send</guibutton>. - </para> - - <sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-delay"> - <title>Saving Messages for Later</title> - <para> - Evolution will send mail immediately unless you tell it to - do otherwise by selecting <menuchoice> - <guimenu>File</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Send - Later</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. This will add your - messages to the <guilabel>Outbox</guilabel> queue. Then, - when you press <guibutton>Send</guibutton> in another - message, or <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton> in the main - mail window, all your unsent messages will go out at once. - I like to use "Send Later" because it gives me a chance to - change my mind about a message before it goes out. That - way, I don't send anything I'll regret the next day. - </para> - <para> - To learn more about how you can specify message queue and - filter behavior, see <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail">. - </para> - - <para> - You can also choose to save messages as drafts or as text - files. Choose - <menuchoice> - <guimenu>File</guimenu> - <guimenuitem>Save</guimenuitem> - </menuchoice> - or <guimenuitem>Save As</guimenuitem> to save your message - as a text file. If you prefer to keep your message in a - folder (the <guilabel>Drafts</guilabel> folder would be the - obvious place), you can select <menuchoice> - <guimenu>File</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Save In - Folder</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>. - </para> - </sect3> - <sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-compose"> - <title>Advanced Mail Composition</title> - <para> - You can probably guess the purpose of the buttons labelled - <guibutton>Cut</guibutton>, <guibutton>Copy</guibutton>, - <guibutton>Paste</guibutton>, <guibutton>Undo</guibutton> - and <guibutton>Redo</guibutton>, but there's a bit more to - sending mail that's less obvious. In the next few sections, - you'll see how <application>Evolution</application> handles - additional features, including large recipient lists, - attachments, and forwarding. - </para> - <sect4 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-attach"> - <title>Attachments</title> - <para> - If you want to attach a file to your email message, you - can drag it from your desktop into the message window, or - click the button in the toolbar with a paper clip on it, - labelled <guibutton>Attach</guibutton>. If you click the - <guibutton>Attach</guibutton> button, - <application>Evolution</application> will open a file - selection dialog box to ask you which file you want to - send. Select the file and click <guilabel>OK</guilabel>. - </para> - <para> - To hide the display of files you've attached to the - message, select <menuchoice> - <guimenu>View</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Hide - Attachments</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>; to show them - again, choose <guimenuitem>Show Attachments</guimenuitem>. - </para> - <para> - When you send the message, a copy of the attached file - will go with it. Be aware that big attachments can take a - long time to download. - </para> - </sect4> - <sect4 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-to-types"> - <title>Types of Recipients</title> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application>, like most email - programs recognizes three types of addressee: primary - recipients, secondary recipients, and hidden ("blind") - recipients. - </para> - <para> - The simplest way to direct a message is to put the email - address or addresses in the <guilabel>To:</guilabel> - field, which denotes primary recipients. To send mail to - more than one or two people, you can use the the - <guilabel>Cc:</guilabel> field. - </para> - <para> - Hearkening back to the dark ages when people used - typewriters and there were no copy machines, "Cc" stands - for "Carbon Copy." Use it whenever you want to share a - message you've written to someone else. - <example id="ex-mail-cc"> - <title>Using the Cc: field</title> - <para> - When Susan sends an email to a client, she puts her - co-worker, Tim, in the in the - <guilabel>Cc:</guilabel> field, so that he know - what's going on. The client can see that Tim also - received the message, and knows that he can talk to - Tim about the message as well. - </para> - </example> - </para> - <para> - If you have a large number of recipients, or if you want - to send mail to several people without sharing the - recipient list, you should use - <guilabel>Bcc:</guilabel>. "Bcc" stands for "Blind Carbon - Copy", and it sends messages discreetly. In other words, - the people in the <guilabel>Bcc:</guilabel> field get the - message, but nobody sees that they got it. Note that the - contents of the <guilabel>To:</guilabel> and - <guilabel>Cc:</guilabel> fields are visible to all - recipients, even to people on the - <guilabel>Bcc:</guilabel> list. - - <example id="ex-mail-bcc"> - <title>Using the Bcc: field</title> - <para> - Tim is sending an email announcement to all of his - company's clients, some of whom are in competition - with each other, and all of whom value their - privacy. He needs to use the - <guilabel>Bcc:</guilabel> field here. If he puts - every address from his address book's "Clients" - category into the <guilabel>To:</guilabel> or - <guilabel>Cc:</guilabel> fields, he'll make the - company's <emphasis>entire</emphasis> client list - public. It seems like a small difference, but it can - make a huge difference in some situations. - </para> - </example> - </para> - </sect4> - - <sect4 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-to"> - <title>Choosing Recipients Quickly</title> - <para> - If you have created address cards in the contact manager, - you can also enter nicknames or other portions of address - data, and <application>Evolution</application> will complete - the address for you. <!-- (INSERT description of UI for this - feature, once it is decided upon). --> If you enter a name - or nickname that can go with more than one card, Evolution - will open a dialog box to ask you which person you meant. - <!-- (NOT YET) Also, <application>Evolution</application> - will add a domain to any unqualified addresses. By default, - this is your domain, but you can choose which one mail - preferences dialog. --> - </para> - <para> - Alternately, you can click on the - <guibutton>To:</guibutton>, <guibutton>Cc:</guibutton>, or - <guibutton>Bcc:</guibutton> buttons to get a list — - potentially a very long one — of the email addresses - in your contact manager. Select addresses and click on - the arrows to move them into the appropriate address - columns. - </para> - <para> - For more information about using email together with the - contact manager and the calendar, see <xref - linkend="usage-contact-automate"> and <xref - linkend="usage-calendar-apts">. - </para> - </sect4> - </sect3> - - <sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-reply"> - <title>Replying to Messages</title> - <para> - To reply to a message, press the - <guibutton>Reply</guibutton> button while it is selected, - or choose <guimenuitem>Reply to Sender</guimenuitem> from - the message's right-click menu. That will open the - <interface>message composer</interface>. The - <guilabel>To:</guilabel> and <guilabel>Subject</guilabel> - fields will already be filled, although you can alter them - if you wish. In addition, the full text of the old message - is inserted into the new message, either in italics (for - HTML display) or with the > character before each line - (in plain text mode), to indicate that it's part of the - previous message. People often intersperse their message - with the quoted material as shown in <xref - linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-reply-fig">. - -<!-- note that this figure should have a reply message ready to send, -with quoted materials and the relevant replies interspersed--> - <!-- ==============Figure=================================== --> - <figure id="usage-mail-getnsend-reply-fig"> - <title>Reply Message Window</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Evolution Main Window</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/replymsg" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> -<!-- ==============End of Figure=================================== --> - </para> - - <para> - If you're reading a message with several recipients, you may - wish to use <guibutton>Reply to All</guibutton> instead of - <guibutton>Reply</guibutton>. If there are large numbers - of people in the <guilabel>Cc:</guilabel> or - <guilabel>To:</guilabel> fields, this can save substantial - amounts of time. - <example> - <title>Using the Reply to All feature</title> - <para> - Susan sends an email to a client and sends copies to Tim - and to an internal company mailing list of co-workers. - If Tim wants to make a comment for all of them to read, - he uses <guibutton>Reply to All</guibutton>, but if he - just wants to tell Susan that he agrees with her, he - uses <guibutton>Reply</guibutton>. Note that his reply - will not reach anyone that Susan put on her - <guilabel>Bcc</guilabel> list, since that list is not - shared with anyone. - </para> - </example> - </para> - </sect3> - <sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-find"> - <title>Searching and Replacing with the Composer</title> - <para> - You're probably familiar with search and replace features, - and if you come from a Linux or Unix background, you - probably know what <guimenuitem>Find Regex</guimenuitem> - does. If you aren't among the lucky who already know, - here's a quick rundown of an important section of the - <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu. - </para> - <para> - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Find</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> Enter a word or phrase, and - <application>Evolution</application> will find it - in your message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Find Regex</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Find a regex, also called a - <glossterm linkend="regular-expression">regular - expression</glossterm>, in your composer window. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Find Again</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Select this item to repeat the last search you performed. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Replace</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Find a word or phrase, and replace it with - something else. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - </variablelist> - </para> - <para> - For all of these menu items, you can choose whether or not - to <guilabel>Search Backwards</guilabel> in the document - from the point where your cursor is. For all but the - regular expression search (which doesn't need it), you are - offered a check box to determine whether the search is to - be <guilabel>Case Sensitive</guilabel> when it determines - a match. - </para> - </sect3> - <sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-html"> - <title>Embellish your email with HTML</title> - <para> - Normally, you can't set text styles or insert pictures in - emails, which is why you've probably seen people use far - too many exclamation points for emphasis, or use - <glossterm linkend="emoticon">emoticons</glossterm> to - convey their feelings. However, most newer email programs - can display images and text styles as well as basic - alignment and paragraph formatting. They do this with - <glossterm linkend="html">HTML</glossterm>, just like web - pages do. - </para> - <note> - <title>HTML Mail is not a Default Setting</title> - <para> - Some people do not have HTML-capable mail clients, or - prefer not to receive HTML-enhanced mail because it is - slower to download and display. <emphasis>Some</emphasis> - people refer to HTML mail as "the root of all evil" and - get very angry if you send them HTML mail, which is why - <application>Evolution</application> sends plain text - unless you explicitly ask for HTML. To send HTML mail, - you will need to select <menuchoice> - <guimenu>Format</guimenu> <guimenuitem> - HTML</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Alternately, you can set - your default mail format preferences in the mail - configuration dialog. See <xref - linkend="config-prefs-mail-other"> for more information. - </para> - </note> - <para> - HTML formatting tools are located in the toolbar just above - the space where you'll actually compose the message, and - they also appear in the <guimenu>Insert</guimenu> and - <guimenu>Format</guimenu> menus. - </para> - <para> - The icons in the toolbar are explained in <glossterm - linkend="tooltip">tool-tips</glossterm>, which appear when - you hold your mouse over the buttons. The buttons fall - into four categories: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term>Headers and lists</term> - <listitem> - <para> - At the left edge of the toolbar, you can choose - <guilabel>Normal</guilabel> for a default text style - or <guilabel>Header 1</guilabel> through - <guilabel>Header 6</guilabel> for varying sizes of - header from large (1) to tiny (6). Other styles - include <guilabel>pre</guilabel>, to use the HTML - tag for preformatted blocks of text, and three types - of <guilabel>List Item</guilabel> for the highly - organized. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term>Text style</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Use these buttons to determine the way your letters - look. If you have text selected, the style will - apply to the selected text. If you do not have text - selected, the style will apply to whatever you type - next. The buttons are: - <itemizedlist mark="none"> - <listitem><para>Push <guibutton>B</guibutton> for bold text</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Push <guibutton>I</guibutton> for italics</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Push <guibutton>U</guibutton> to underline</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Push <guibutton>S</guibutton> for a strikethrough.</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term>Alignment</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Located next to the text style buttons, these three - paragraph icons should be familiar to users of most - word processing software. The leftmost button will - make your text aligned to the left, the center - button, centered, and the right hand button, - aligned on the right side. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Indentation rules</term> - <listitem> - <para> - The button with the arrow pointing left will reduce - a paragraph's indentation, and the right arrow will - increase its indentation. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term>Color Selection</term> - <listitem> - <para> - At the far right is the color section tool. The - colored box displays the current text color; to - choose a new one, click the arrow button just to the - right. If you have text selected, the color will - apply to the selected text. If you do not have text - selected, the color will apply to whatever you type - next. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - </variablelist> - </para> - <para> - There are three tools that you can find only in the - <guimenu>Insert</guimenu> menu. - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Insert Link</guimenuitem>:</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Use this tool to put hyperlinks in your HTML - messages. When you select it, - <application>Evolution</application> will prompt you - for the <guilabel>Text</guilabel> that will appear, - and the <guilabel>Link</guilabel>, where you should - enter the actual web address (URL). If you don't - want special link text, you can just enter the address - directly, and <application>Evolution</application> - will recognize it as a link. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term> <guimenuitem>Insert Image</guimenuitem>:</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Select this item to embed an image into your email, as - was done in the welcome message. Images will appear at - the location of the cursor. This is different from - attaching them to a message, but not very different. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Insert Rule</guimenuitem>:</term> - <listitem><para> - This will insert a horizontal line, or rule, into your document. - You'll be presented with a dialog box which gives you - the choice of size, percentage of screen, shading, and - alignment; if you leave everything at the default - values you'll get a thin black rule all the way across - the screen.</para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - </variablelist> - </para> - <note> - <title>A Technical note on HTML Tags</title> - <para> - The composer is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) - editor for HTML. That means that if you enter HTML - directly into the composer— say, <markup - role="html"><B>Bold Text</B></markup>, the - the composer will assume you meant exactly that string - of characters, and not "make this text bold," as an HTML - composition tool or text editor would. - </para> - </note> - </sect3> - - -<!-- Function not implemented, -possibly never will be due to security evil. --> -<!-- - <sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-send-live"> - <title>Live Documents</title> - <para> - Later versions of <application>Evolution</application> - will allow you to enliven your email with almost any - sort of document, and even with entire - applications. At this point, however, this feature has not - yet been implemented. - </para> - </sect3> ---> - - <sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-fwd"> - <title>Forwarding Mail</title> - <para> - The post office forwards your mail for you when you change - addresses, and you can forward mail when you get a letter by - mistake. The email <guilabel>Forward</guilabel> button - works in much the same way. It's particularly useful if you - have received a message and you think someone else would - like to see it. You can forward a message as an attachment - to a new message (this is the default) or - you can send it <glossterm linkend="inline">inline</glossterm> as a quoted - portion of the message you are sending. Attachment - forwarding is best if you want to send the full, unaltered - message on to someone else. Inline forwarding is best if - you want to send portions of a message, or if you have a - large number of comments on different sections of the - message you are forwarding. Remember to note from whom the - message came, and where, if at all, you have removed or - altered content. - </para> - <para> - To forward a message you are reading, press - <guibutton>Forward</guibutton> on the toolbar, or select - <menuchoice> <guimenu>Message</guimenu> - <guimenuitem>Forward</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>. If you - prefer to forward the message <glossterm linkend="inline">inline</glossterm> - instead of attached, select <menuchoice> - <guimenu>Message</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Forward - Inline</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> from the menu. Choose an - addressee as you would when sending a new message; the - subject will already be entered, but you can alter it. - Enter your comments on the message in the - <interface>composition frame</interface>, and press - <guibutton>Send</guibutton>. - </para> - </sect3> - <sect3 id="usage-mail-getnsend-ettiquette"> - <title>Seven Tips for Email Courtesy</title> - <para> - I started with ten, but four were "Don't send - <glossterm linkend="spam">spam</glossterm>." - <itemizedlist> - - <listitem> - <para> - Don't send spam or forward chain mail. If you must, - watch out for hoaxes and urban legends, and make sure - the message doesn't have multiple layers of - greater-than signs, (>) indicating multiple layers - of careless in-line forwarding. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - Always begin and close with a salutation. Say "please" - and "thank you," just like you do in real life. You - can keep your pleasantries short, but be pleasant! - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - ALL CAPS MEANS YOU'RE SHOUTING! Don't write a whole - message in capital letters. It hurts people's ears. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - Never write anything in email you wouldn't say in - public. Old messages have a nasty habit of - resurfacing when you least expect. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - Check your spelling and use complete sentences. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - Don't send nasty emails (flames). If you get one, - don't write back. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - When you reply or forward, include just enough of - the previous message to provide context: not too - much, not too little. - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - <para> Happy mailing! </para> - </sect3> - </sect2> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="usage-mail-organize"> - <title>Organizing Your Mail</title> - <para> - Even if you only get a few email messages a day, you probably - want to sort and organize them. When you get a hundred a day - and you want to refer to a message you received six weeks ago, - you <emphasis>need</emphasis> to sort and organize them. - Fortunately, <application>Evolution</application> has the tools - to help you do it. - </para> - <sect2 id="usage-mail-organize-columns"> - <title>Sorting Mail with Column Headers</title> - <para> - By default, the message list has columns with the following - headings: an envelope icon indicating whether you have read - or replied to a message (closed for unread, open for read, - and open with an arrow on it to indicate you've sent a - reply), an exclamation point indicating priority, and the - <guilabel>From</guilabel>, <guilabel>Subject</guilabel>, and - <guilabel>Date</guilabel> fields. You can change their order - and remove them by dragging and dropping them. You can add - new ones with the <guimenuitem>Field Chooser</guimenuitem> - item in the right click menu for the column headings. - </para> - <para> - Right-click on one of the column headers to get a list of - options: - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Sort Ascending</guimenuitem>, - <guimenuitem>Sort Descending</guimenuitem>, and - <guimenuitem>Unsort</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para>Which should be pretty obvious. You - can also set these sorts by just clicking on the - column headers.</para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Group By this Field</guimenuitem></term> - <listitem><para> - Groups messages instead of sorting them. (FIXME: Explain further) - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Remove this - Column</guimenuitem></term> <listitem><para> Remove - this column from the display. You can also remove - columns by dragging the header off the list and - letting it drop. </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guimenuitem>Field - Chooser</guimenuitem></term> <listitem><para> A list - of column headers; just drag and drop them into - place between two existing headers. A red arrow will - appear to show you where you're about to put the - column. </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="usage-mail-organize-folders"> - <title>Getting Organized with Folders</title> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> keeps mail, as well as - address cards and calendars, in folders. You start out with a - few, like <guilabel>Inbox</guilabel>, - <guilabel>Outbox</guilabel>, and <guilabel>Drafts</guilabel>, - but you can create as many as you like. Create new folders by - selecting <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> and then - <guimenuitem>Folder</guimenuitem> from the - <guimenu>File</guimenu> menu. - <application>Evolution</application> will as you for the name - and the type of the folder, and will provide you with a folder - tree so you can pick where it goes. - </para> - <para> - When you click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>, your new folder will - appear in the <interface>folder view</interface>. You can - then put messages in it by dragging and dropping them, or by - using the <guibutton>Move</guibutton> button in the - toolbar. If you want to move several messages at once, click - on the ones you want to move while holding down the - <keycap>CTRL</keycap> key, or use <keycap>Shift</keycap> to - select a range of messages. If you create a filter with the - <interface>filter assistant</interface>, you can have mail - moved to your folder automatically. - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="usage-mail-organize-search"> - <title>Searching for Messages</title> - <para> - Most mail clients can search through your messages for you, - but <application>Evolution</application> does it faster. You - can search through just the message subjects, just the message - body, or both body and subject. - </para> - <para> - To start searching, enter a word or phrase in the text area - right below the toolbar, and choose a search type: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Body or subject contains:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - This will search message subjects and the messages - themselves for the word or phrase you've entered in - the search field. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term> <guilabel>Body contains:</guilabel> </term> - <listitem> - <para> - This will search only in message text, not the subject - lines. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Subject contains:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - This will show you messages where the search text is - in the subject line. It will not search in the - message body. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Body does not contain:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - This finds every email message that does not have the - search text in the message body. It will still show - messages that have the search text in the subject - line, if it is not also in the body. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Subject does not contain:</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - This finds every mail whose subject does not contain - the search text. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - - When you've entered your search phrase, press - <keycap>Enter</keycap>. <application>Evolution</application> - will show your search results in the message list. - </para> - - <para> - If you think you'll want to return to a search again, you can - save it as a virtual folder by selecting <guilabel>Store - Search as Virtual Folder</guilabel>. - </para> - - <para> - When you're done with the search, go back to seeing all your - messages by choosing <guimenuitem>Show All</guimenuitem> from - the <guilabel>Search</guilabel> drop-down box. If you're - sneaky, just enter a blank search: since every message has at - least one space in it, you'll see every message in the - folder. - </para> - - <para> - If you'd like to perform a more complex search, open the - advanced search dialog by selecting - <guilabel>Advanced...</guilabel> from the - <guilabel>Search</guilabel> drop-down menu. Then, create your - search criteria (each with the same options you saw in the - regular search bar), and decide whether you want to find - messages that match all of them, or messages that match even - one. Then, click <guibutton>Search</guibutton> to go and find - those messages. - </para> - - <para> - You'll see a similar approach to sorting messages when you - create filters and virtual folders in the next few sections. - </para> - - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="usage-mail-organize-filters"> - <title>Staying organized: Mail Filters in Evolution</title> - <para> - I once worked in the mail room of a large company, where my - job was to bundle, sort, and distribute mail to the various - mail boxes and desks throughout the building. Filters do that - same job with email, but they lose much less mail than I did. - In addition, you can have multiple filters performing multiple - actions that may effect the same message in several ways. For - example, your filters could put copies of one message into - multiple folders, or keep a copy and send one to another - person as well, and it can do that in under a second. Which is - to say, it's faster and more flexible than an actual person - with a pile of envelopes. - </para> - <para> - Most often, you'll want to have - <application>Evolution</application> put mail into different - folders, but you can have it do almost anything you like. - People who get lots of mail, or who often need to refer to old - messages, find filters especially helpful, but they're good - for anybody who gets more than a few messages a day. To - create a filter, open the <interface>filter - assistant</interface> by selecting - <menuchoice> - <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> - <guimenuitem>Mail Filters</guimenuitem> - </menuchoice>. - </para> - - <figure id="usage-mail-filters-fig-assist"> - <title>The Filter Assistant</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>The Filter Assistant</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/filter-assist-fig" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> - - <para> - The <interface>filter assistant</interface> window contains a - list of your current filters, sorted by the order in which - they are used. From the drop-down box at the top of the - window, choose <guilabel>Incoming</guilabel> to display - filters for incoming mail, and <guilabel>Outgoing</guilabel> - for those which sort only outgoing mail. - </para> - <para> - The <interface>filter assistant</interface> also has a set of - buttons: - <itemizedlist> - - <listitem><para> - <guibutton>Add</guibutton> — Create a new filter. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> — Edit an existing filter. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> — Delete the selected filter. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> <guibutton>Up</guibutton> — Move the - selected filter up in the list so it gets applied first. - </para></listitem> - - <listitem><para> - <guibutton>Down</guibutton> — Move the selected filter down - in the list, so it comes into play later. - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - If you don't have any filters set up, the only one of those - buttons you can click is <guibutton>Add</guibutton>, which - will open a dialog to let you add a filter rule. If you do - have filters, you can either add a new filter rule, or select - one from your list and click <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>. - </para> - <para> - The filter rule editor, shown in <xref - linkend="usage-mail-filters-fig-new">, is where you'll - actually create your filtering rule. - - <figure id="usage-mail-filters-fig-new"> - <title>Creating a new Filter</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Creating a new Filter</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/filter-new-fig" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> - </para> - <para> - Enter a name for your filter in the <guilabel>Rule - Name</guilabel> field, and then begin choosing the criteria - you'd like to use as you sort your mail. Choose how many - criteria you'd like by pressing <guibutton>Add - Criterion</guibutton> and <guibutton>Remove - Criterion</guibutton>. If you have multiple criteria, you - should then decide whether to have the filter do its job only - <guilabel>if all criteria are met</guilabel>, or <guilabel>if - any criteria are met</guilabel>. - </para> - <para> - For each filter criterion, you must first select what - part of the message you want the filter to examine: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Sender</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - The sender's address. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Recipients</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - The recipients of the message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Subject</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - The subject line of the message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Specific Header</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - The filter can look at any header you - want, even obscure or custom ones. Enter the header name - in the first text box, and put your search text in the - second one. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Message Body</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - Search in the actual text of the message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Expression</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Enter a <glossterm linkend="regular-expression">regular - expression</glossterm>, and - <application>Evolution</application> will search the - entire message, including headers, to match it for you. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Date Sent</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> Filter messages by when they were sent: - First, choose the conditions you want a message to - meet— <guilabel>before</guilabel> a given time, - <guilabel>after</guilabel> it, and so forth. Then, choose - the time. The filter will compare the message's time-stamp - to the system clock when the filter is run, or to a - specific time and date you choose from a calendar. You - can even have it look for messages within a range of time - relative to the filter&mdash perhaps you're looking for - messages less than two days old. </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Date Recieved</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - This works the same way as the <guilabel>Date Sent</guilabel> - option, except that it compares the time you got the message - with the dates you specify. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Priority</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - Emails have a standard priority range from -3 (least - important) to 3 (most important). You can have filters set the - priority of messages you recieve, and then have other filters - applied only to those messages which have a certain priority. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Regex Match</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - If you know your way around a <glossterm - linkend="regular-expression">regex</glossterm>, or - regular expression, put your knowledge to use here. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Source</guilabel></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Filter messages according the server you got them from. - You can enter a URL or choose one from the drop-down - list. This ability is only relevant if you use more - than one mail source. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - <para> - Now, tell it what to do with those messages. If you want more - actions, click <guibutton>Add Action</guibutton>; if you want - fewer, click <guibutton>Remove Action</guibutton>. And choose - again: - <variablelist> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Copy to Folder</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - If you select this item, <application>Evolution</application> - will put the messages into a folder you specify. Click the - <guibutton><click here to select a folder></guibutton> button - to select a folder. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Move to Folder</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - If you select this item, <application>Evolution</application> - will put the messages into a folder you specify. Click the - <guibutton><click here to select a folder></guibutton> button - to select a folder. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Forward to Address</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - Select this, enter an address, and the addressee will - get a copy of the message. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Delete</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - Marks the message for deletion. You can still get the message - back, at least until you <guimenuitem>Expunge</guimenuitem> your - mail yourself. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Stop Processing</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - Select this if you want to tell all other filters to ignore - this message, because whatever you've done with it so far - is plenty. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Assign Color</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> - Select this item, and <application>Evolution</application> - will mark the message with whatever color you please. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guilabel>Assign Score</guilabel></term> - <listitem><para> If you know that all mail with - "important" somewhere in the message body line is - important, you can give it a high priority score. In a subsequent filter you can - then arrange your messages by their priority score. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - </variablelist> - </para> - <para> - You're done. Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> to use this - filter, or <guibutton>Cancel</guibutton> to close the window - without saving any changes. - </para> - - - - <!-- FIXME: This needs to be in there. But the feature is temporarily - disabled and I don't know how it will be reimplemented. - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>When mail arrives:</guilabel> Select - this option to have messages filtered as they - arrive. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>When mail is sent:</guilabel> Select - this option to filter your outgoing mail. You - can use this feature to keep your - <interface>Outbox</interface> as organized as - your <interface>Inbox</interface>. - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - - --> - - <note> - <title>Two Notable Filter Features</title> - <para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para> - Incoming email that your filters don't move goes into the Inbox; - outgoing mail that they don't move ends up in the Sent folder. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem><para>If you move a folder, your filters - will follow it. </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </note> - </sect2> - - - - <sect2 id="usage-mail-organize-vFolders"> - <title>Getting Really Organized with Virtual Folders</title> - <para> - If filters aren't flexible enough for you, or you find - yourself performing the same search again and again, consider - a virtual folder. Virtual folders, or vFolders, are an - advanced way of viewing your email messages within - <application>Evolution</application>. If you get a lot of - mail or often forget where you put messages, virtual folders can help - you stay on top of things. - </para> - <para> - A virtual folder is really a hybrid of all the other organizational - tools: it looks like a folder, it acts like a search, and you - set it up like a filter. In other words, while a conventional - folder actually contains messages, a virtual folder is a view of - messages that may be in several different folders. The - messages it contains are determined on the fly using a set of - criteria you choose in advance. - </para> - - <para> - As messages that meet the virtual folder criteria arrive or are - deleted, <application>Evolution</application> will - automatically place them in and remove them from the - virtual folder contents list. When you delete a message, it gets - erased from the folder in which it actually exists, as well as - any virtual folders which display it. - </para> - - <para> - Imagine a business trying to keep track of mail from hundreds - of vendors and clients, or a university with overlapping and - changing groups of faculty, staff, administrators and - students. The more mail you need to organize, the less you - can afford the sort of confusion that stems from an - organizational system that's not flexible enough. Virtual folders - make for better organization because they can accept - overlapping groups in a way that regular folders and filing - systems can't. - </para> - - <example id="usage-mail-organize-vFolders-ex"> - <title>Using Folders, Searches, and Virtual Folders</title> - <para> - To organize my mail box, I set up a virtual folder for - emails from my friend and co-worker Anna. I have another - one for messages that have "ximian.com" in the address and - "Evolution" in the subject line, so I can keep a record of - what people from work send me about - <application>Evolution</application>. If Anna sends me a - message about anything other than Evolution, it only shows - up in the "Anna" folder. When Anna sends me mail about the - user interface for <application>Evolution</application>, I - can see that message both in the "Anna" virtual folder and - in the "Internal Evolution Discussion" virtual folder. - </para> - </example> - - <!-- (INSERT SCREENSHOT HERE: virtual folders in action) --> - - <para> - To create a virtual folder, select <menuchoice> - <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Virtual Folder - Editor</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>. This will bring up a - dialog box that looks suspiciously like the filter window - (for more information on filters, see <xref - linkend="usage-mail-organize-filters">), and which - presents you with a list of virtual folders you have previously - created. If you have created any virtual folders, they are listed - here, and you can select, edit or remove them if you wish. - If you have not created any, there will be only one available - option: click <guibutton>Add</guibutton> to add a new - Virtual Folder. - </para> - <para> - You can enter a name for your virtual folder in the - <guilabel>Name</guilabel>. Then, tell - <application>Evolution</application> what messages to look - for. This process is exactly like filter creation: decide - between <guilabel>Match all parts</guilabel> and - <guilabel>Match any part</guilabel>, then choose what part of - the message to look in, what sort of matching to perform, and - specify exactly what it is that you want to find, be it a - line of text, a score, a regular expression, or a particular date or - range of dates. - </para> - <para> - The second part, however, is slightly different. In the - section of the window labelled <guilabel>Virtual Folder Sources - </guilabel> is a list of folders in which - <application>Evolution</application> will search for the - contents of your vFolder. Click <guibutton>Add</guibutton> - to add a folder, or <guibutton>Remove</guibutton> to remove - one. That way, you can have your vFolder search in - newsgroups, or just in one of your mailboxes, or just in a - select few folders you've already screened with filters. - </para> - <para> - The vFolder creation window is shown in <xref - linkend="usage-mail-vfolder-fig-createrule"> - - <figure id="usage-mail-vfolder-fig-createrule"> - <title>Selecting a vFolder Rule</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Creating a vFolder Rule</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/vfolder-createrule-fig" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="usage-mail-subscriptions"> - <title>Subscription Management</title> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application> lets you handle your - IMAP and newsgroup subscriptions with the same tool: the - subscriptions manager. To start using it, choose - <menuchoice> <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Manage - Subscriptions</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>. - </para> - <para> - If you have configured any IMAP (mail) or NNTP (news) - servers, you will see them listed in the left half of the - subscription management window. Click on a server to select - it, and you will see the folders or newsgroups available to - you. You can then select individual folders and subscribe to - them, or remove yourself from the subscription list. - </para> - <para> - Once you have subscribed to a folder or newsgroup, your system - will check for new messages whenever you press the - <guibutton>Get Mail</guibutton> button. - </para> - - </sect2> - </sect1> -</chapter> - - diff --git a/doc/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml b/doc/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index bbcb2b5a39..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,453 +0,0 @@ -<!-- - <!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN"> ---> -<chapter id="usage-mainwindow"> - - <title>The Main Window: Evolution Basics</title> - <para> - Start <application>Evolution</application> by selecting - <menuchoice><guimenu>Main Panel Menu</guimenu> - <guisubmenu>Applications</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Evolution</guimenuitem></menuchoice> or by typing - <command>evolution</command> at the command line. The first time - you run the program, it will create a directory called - <filename>evolution</filename> in your home directory, where it - will keep all your <application>Evolution</application>-related - files. - </para> - <para> - After <application>Evolution</application> starts - up, you will see the <interface>main window</interface>, with the - <interface>Inbox</interface> open. It should look a lot like the - picture in <xref linkend="usage-mainwindow-fig">. On the left of - the <interface>main window</interface> is the <interface>shortcut - bar</interface>, with several buttons in it. Just underneath the - title bar is a series of menus in the <interface>menu - bar</interface>, and below that, the <interface>tool - bar</interface> with buttons for different functions. The largest - part of the <interface>main window</interface> is taken up by the - actual <interface>Inbox</interface>, where messages are listed - and displayed. If you're running the program for the first time, - you'll have just one message: a welcome from Ximian. - - -<!-- ==============Figure=================================== --> - <figure id="usage-mainwindow-fig"> - <title>Evolution Main Window and Inbox</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Evolution Main Window</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/mainwindow-pic" format="png" srccredit="Kevin Breit"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> -<!-- ==============End of Figure=================================== --> -</para> - - <para> - <note> - <title>The Way Evolution Looks</title> - <para> - The appearance of both <application>Evolution</application> - and <application>GNOME</application> is very easy to - customize, so your screen might not look like this picture. - You might decide to have <application>Evolution</application> - start with the calendar and a folder bar, or with the contact - manager occupying the entire window. - </para> - </note> - </para> - - <sect1 id="usage-mainwindow-shortcutbar"> - <title>The Shortcut Bar</title> - <para> - <application>Evolution</application>'s most important job is - to give you access to your information and help you use it - quickly. One way it does that is through the - <interface>shortcut bar</interface>, the column on the left - hand side of the main window. The large buttons with names - like <guilabel>Inbox</guilabel> and - <guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> are the shortcuts, and you can - select different groups of shortcuts by clicking the - rectangular group buttons. - </para> - <para> - The shortcut group buttons are <guibutton>Evolution - Shortcuts</guibutton> and <guibutton>Internet - Directories</guibutton>. When you click on them, they'll slide - up and down to give you access to different sorts of shortcuts. - When you first start <application>Evolution</application>, you - are looking at the <guilabel>Evolution Shortcuts</guilabel> - category. If you click <guilabel>Internet - Directories</guilabel>, it will slide up and you'll see buttons - for the <guilabel>Bigfoot</guilabel> and - <guilabel>Netcenter</guilabel> directories, as well as any - others you or your system administrator may have added. You can - add more groups by right-clicking on the background of the - shortcut bar and selecting <guimenuitem>Menu - Group</guimenuitem>. Internet directories behave a lot like - the local contact manager, which is covered in <xref - linkend="usage-contact">. - </para> - <para> - Take a look at the <guilabel>Evolution Shortcuts</guilabel> - again. The shortcut buttons in that category are: - - <variablelist> - -<!-- NOT IMPLEMENTED! - <varlistentry> - <term> <guibutton>Today:</guibutton></term> - <listitem> - <para> - This will bring up a summary of any new messages you've - received, along with the tasks and appointments you have - lined up for today. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> ---> - - - <varlistentry> - <term> <guibutton>Executive Summary:</guibutton></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Start your day here. The Executive summary gives you - lists of new or important messages, daily appointments - and urgent tasks. You can customize its appearance and - content, and use it to access Evolution services. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - - <varlistentry> - <term> <guibutton>Inbox:</guibutton></term> - <listitem> - <para> - Click the <guibutton>Inbox</guibutton> button to start - reading your mail. Your Inbox is also where you can - access Evolution's tools to filter, sort, organize, and - search your mail. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guibutton>Calendar:</guibutton></term> - <listitem> - <para> - The Calendar can store your appointments and To do lists - for you. Connected to a network, you can use it to keep - a group of people on schedule and up to date. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guibutton>Tasks:</guibutton></term> - <listitem> - <para> - A full-size view of your calendar's task pad. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term><guibutton>Contacts:</guibutton></term> - <listitem> - <para> - The Contact Manager holds your addresses, phone numbers, - and contact information. Like calendar information, - contact data can be synchronized with hand-held devices - and shared over a network. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - -<!-- NOT IMPLEMENTED YET - - - <varlistentry> - <term> <guibutton>Notes:</guibutton></term> - <listitem> - <para> The note pad is your catch-all tool: use it to take - messages from phone conversations, keep small things - organized, write <glossterm linkend="haiku">haiku</glossterm>, or whatever - you like. This feature is not yet implemented, but will be - soon. See <xref linkend="usage-notes"> for more - information. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> ---> - - </variablelist> - </para> - <para> - If you don't like the shortcut bar, you can use the folder bar - or the menu bar to navigate the main window. Press - <keycombo action="simul"> - <keycap>Ctrl</keycap> - <keycap>O</keycap> - </keycombo> - to choose from a list of folders you'd like to visit, or use the - drop-down folder bar. You can hide and show the folder bar and - the shortcut bar by selecting those items in the - <guimenu>View</guimenu> menu. - </para> - - <tip> - <title>Shortcut Bar Tricks</title> - <para> - To remove a shortcut from the shortcut bar, right-click on it - and select <guimenuitem>Remove</guimenuitem>. To add one, - select <menuchoice> <guimenu>File</guimenu> - <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> <guimenuitem>Evolution Bar - Shortcut</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>. - </para> - <para> - To change the way the shortcut bar looks, right-click in an - empty space on the shortcut bar. From the menu that appears, - you can select icon sizes. - </para> - </tip> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="usage-mainwindow-folderbar"> - <title>The Folder Bar</title> - <para> - The <interface>folder bar</interface> is a more comprehensive - way to view the information you've stored with - <application>Evolution</application>. It displays all your - appointments, address cards, and email in a tree that's a lot - like a <glossterm linkend="filetree">file - tree</glossterm>— it starts small at the top, and branches - downwards. On most computers, there will be three or four - folders at the base. First is the <guilabel>Local</guilabel> - folder, which holds all the <application>Evolution</application> - data that's stored on your computer. After that come - <guilabel>Virtual Folders</guilabel>, or virtual folders, discussed in - <xref linkend="usage-mail-organize-vfolders">, followed by any - <glossterm linkend="imap">IMAP</glossterm> mail folders you may - have available to you over your network. Lastly, there are - <guilabel>External Directories</guilabel>, <glossterm - linkend="ldap">LDAP</glossterm> contact directories stored on a - network. - </para> - <para> - - A typical <guilabel>Local</guilabel> folder contains the following folders: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Calendar</guilabel>, for appointments and - event listings. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Contacts</guilabel>, for address cards. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Inbox</guilabel>, for incoming mail. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Drafts</guilabel>, for messages you started and didn't finish. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Sent</guilabel>, for sent mail. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Trash</guilabel>, which is used to store - messages you don't want, but keep around just in case you - change your mind. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Outbox</guilabel>, for messages you have written - but not yet sent. This will be empty unless you use - <application>Evolution</application> while offline. - </para> - </listitem> - - </itemizedlist> - - </para> - <tip id="foldertips"> - <title>Navigating without the Folder Bar</title> - <para> - You don't need the folder bar or the shortcut bar to move - around the main window. You can use <keycap>Tab</keycap> to - switch from one part of the window to another, and the folder - menu on the right side of the window just below the toolbar - to move about the folder tree. - </para> - </tip> - - <para> - To create a new folder, select <menuchoice> - <guimenu>File</guimenu> <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> - <guimenuitem>Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. You'll be asked where you want to - put it, and what kind of folder it should be. You can choose - from three types: <guilabel>Mail</guilabel>, for storing mail, - <guilabel>Calendar</guilabel> for storing calendars, and - <guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> for storing contacts. - </para> - - <note> - <title>Folders Have Limits</title> - <para> - Calendars must go in calendar folders, mail in mail - folders, and contacts in contact folders. - </para> - </note> - - <para> - Right-clicking will bring up a menu for just about anything - in GNOME, and <application>Evolution</application> is no - exception. If you right-click on a folder, you'll have a - menu with the following options: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para><guimenuitem>FIXME</guimenuitem>, for another purpose. </para></listitem> - <listitem><para><guimenuitem>Something else</guimenuitem>, for another purpose. </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist>. - </para> - - <tip> - <title>Context-Sensitive Help</title> - <para> - GNOME 2.0 will support context-sensitive help, which means you - can almost always get help on an item by right-clicking it. - If you're not sure what something is, or don't know what you - can do with it, choosing <guimenuitem>Help</guimenuitem> from - the right-click menu is a good way to find out. - </para> - </tip> - - <para> - Any time new information arrives in a folder, that folder label - is displayed in bold text. - </para> - <para> - To delete a folder, right-click it and select - <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem> from the menu that pops up. - To change the order of folders, or put one inside another, use - drag-and-drop. To move individual - messages, appointments, and address cards between folders, you - can do the same thing: drag them where you want them, and - they'll go. - </para> - </sect1> - <sect1 id="usage-mainwindow-menubar"> - <title>The Menu Bar</title> - <para> - The <interface>menu bar</interface>'s contents will always - provide all the possible actions for any given view of your - data. That means that, depending on the context, menu bar items - will change. If you're looking at your Inbox, most of the menu - items will relate to mail; some will relate to other components - of <application>Evolution</application> and some, especially - those in the <guimenu>File Menu</guimenu> will relate to the - application as a whole. The contents of the menu bar are - described in <xref linkend="menuref">. - </para> - <para> - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term> <guimenu>File</guimenu> Menu</term> - - <listitem><para> - Anything even related to a file or to the operations - of the application generally falls under this - menu: creating things, saving them to disk, - printing them, and quitting the program itself. - - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term> <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> Menu </term> - <listitem><para> - The <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu holds - useful tools that help you edit text and move it around. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term> <guimenu>View</guimenu> Menu </term> - <listitem><para> - This menu lets you decide how <application>Evolution</application> - should look. Some of the features control the appearance of - <application>Evolution</application> as a whole, and others - the way a particular kind of information appears. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term> <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> Menu </term> - <listitem><para> Tools for configuring, changing, and - setting up go here. For mail, that means things like - <guimenuitem>Mail Configuration</guimenuitem> and the - <guimenuitem>Virtual Folder Editor</guimenuitem>. For the - <interface>Calendar</interface> and the <interface>Contact - Manager</interface>, it's color, network, and layout - configuration. </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - - <varlistentry> - <term> <guimenu>Help</guimenu> Menu</term> - <listitem><para> - Select among these items to open the - <application>Help Browser</application> - and read the <application>Evolution</application> manual. - </para></listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - <para> - Other menus, like <guilabel>Folder</guilabel>, - <guilabel>Message</guilabel>, and <guilabel>Actions</guilabel>, - appear only occasionally. <guilabel>Message</guilabel> and - <guilabel>Folder</guilabel>, for example, have commands that only - relate to email, so they're only available when you're looking at - email. - </para> - <para> - Once you've familiarized yourself with the <interface>main - window</interface> you can start doing things with it. We'll - start with your email inbox, since you've got a letter waiting - for you already. - </para> - </sect1> -</chapter> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - diff --git a/doc/C/usage-notes.sgml b/doc/C/usage-notes.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 1ff2283128..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/usage-notes.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,49 +0,0 @@ -<chapter id="usage-notes"> - <title>Evolution Notes</title> - <abstract> - <title> An Overview of the Evolution Notes</title> - <para> - In the dark ages before email was invented, there were little - scraps of people which people used for short-term information - storage. These scraps of paper were called notes. Now, notes - are an almost necessary part of our lives, albeit in electronic - form. It only makes sense, then, that - <application>Evolution</application> will eventually have a - Notes feature. <application>Evolution</application> can help - you take notes in the following ways: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - Take down phone numbers, take school notes, take phone - messages, or even write poetry. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Color code notes to organize them, or just to - make them look good. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Turn a note into an email or a text file. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Write <glossterm>Haiku</glossterm> - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - <para> - You can start writing notes by clicking - <guibutton>Notes</guibutton> in the shortcut bar. Of course, - it's not there yet. But when it is, it'll take you to the - notepad. - </para> - </abstract> -</chapter> - - - diff --git a/doc/C/usage-print.sgml b/doc/C/usage-print.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index cc1ac16357..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/usage-print.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,105 +0,0 @@ -<chapter id="usage-print"> -<title>Printing with Evolution</title> -<para> - This is a very short chapter, because printing with - <application>Evolution</application> is not a complex task. Like - most GNOME applications, <application>Evolution</application> uses - the gnome-print system, so if you've used any other GNOME - application to print, you should be able to print from - <application>Evolution</application> immediately. -</para> -<para> - Whether you're printing a message, a calendar page, or a selection - of address cards, you can choose to print directly to a printer, or - save the print output to a postscript file. You can also use the - preview feature to see how your printed output will look. -</para> - - <sect1 id="printpreview"> - <title>Print Preview</title> - <para> - <guibutton>Print Preview</guibutton> appears both as a button in - the printing dialog and as an item in the - <guimenu>File</guimenu> menu. In both places, it does the same - thing: it opens a new window that shows you what would happen if - you were to print the current message, calendar, appointment, or - address card. - </para> - <para> - That window allows you to select which pages you want to see, - and how close you'd like to look at them. Zoom in or out, fit - the page to the window (the <guibutton>Fit</guibutton> button) - or match the width of the page and the window (the - <guibutton>Fit Width</guibutton> button). None of these buttons - changes the way the page will be printed, but they do let you - get a better look. If you're satisfied with the way the things - look, click <guibutton>Print</guibutton> to send your document - on its way. If you'd like to change it, just close the - <guilabel>Print Preview</guilabel> window and make the changes - you want from the Mail, Calendar, or Contact Manager. - </para> - - - <!-- ==============Figure=================================== --> - - <figure id="print-preview"> - <title>Print Preview</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Print Preview</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/print-preview" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> -<!-- ==============End of Figure============================== --> - - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="print-destination"> - <title>File or Printer?</title> - <para> - The printer selection window, shown in <xref - linkend="print-dest">, lets you choose the format for - printing— at this time, only <guilabel>Generic - Postscript</guilabel> is available— and whether to print - to a file or to an actual printer. If you choose a printer, - you'll be asked for the printer command (probably - <guilabel>lpr</guilabel>) which your system uses. If you - choose to print to a file, you'll need to decide upon a - filename. And of course, you'll want to choose a number of - copies, and whether to collate them. - </para> - - <!-- ==============Figure=================================== --> - - <figure id="print-dest"> - <title>Choosing a Printer</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Choosing a Printer</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/print-dest" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> -<!-- ==============End of Figure============================== --> - - <para> - If you're printing a message that's more than one page, you'll - have the option of choosing which pages to print. If you're - printing a calendar entry, you can decide what range of dates to - print. And, if you're printing contact cards, you can decide - whether to print only the selected cards, or all of them. - </para> - <para> - When you're ready, click <guibutton>Print</guibutton> to print, - <guibutton>Preview</guibutton> to have a look (or another look) - at the preview, or <guibutton>Cancel</guibutton> to cancel the - whole deal. - </para> - </sect1> -</chapter> - - - - - - - diff --git a/doc/C/usage-sync.sgml b/doc/C/usage-sync.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index a6b53e9526..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/usage-sync.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ - - <chapter id="usage-sync"> - <title>Synchronizing with a Hand-held Device</title> - <para> - This chapter covers is how to synchronize data - installed and configured. If you need information on how to - set up a synchronization system, consult <xref - linkend="config-sync">. - </para> - <sect1 id="hotsync"> - <title>Using HotSync</title> - <para> - Put your hand-held device on its cradle and press the - HotSync button. - </para> - <para> - No, really. That's all there is to it. - </para> - </sect1> - </chapter>
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