Getting Oriented with the Ximian Evolution Summary
Using the Summary
The Ximian Evolution Summary can show you what you need to know
quickly. It will show you your tasks for that day, how many
emails are waiting for you, and much more.
To begin using your Summary, click on the Shortcut
Bar or Summary at the top of the
Folder Bar. By default, you will see:
Weather Reports
News feeds from the Internet
Mail summary
Appointments
Tasks
Customizing the Summary's Modules
Evolution's modules can be customized
to suit your needs. For example, you can choose which mail
boxes are summarized, and which news services appear.
Using the Summary through an HTTP Proxy
If you use an HTTP proxy, Ximian
Evolution must be able to find it through the
gnome-vfs subsystem before it can
access news and weather from the Internet. This is also
the case if you wish to load remote images into HTML mail
message. You can tell the GNOME Virtual File System about
your HTTP proxy in one of two ways:
Configure it with Nautilus
Open a Nautilus window
Select
Preferences
Edit Preferences
.
Go to the Navigation tab.
Click the Use HTTP Proxy
checkbox and enter the location of your HTTP
proxy in the Location field.
Configure it with the gconftool command
Open a terminal.
Enter the command
gconftool --type=bool --set /system/gnome-vfs/use-http-proxy "TRUE"
Enter the command
gconftool --type=string --set /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-host "your-proxy-url"
Enter the command
gconftool --type=int --set /system/gnome-vfs/http-proxy-port "8080"
For more information about the gconftool command,
read the gconftool man page.
Customizing the Weather Summary
To add a city to be displayed in the weather:
Click Summary in the Shortcut Bar.
Click
Tools
Summary Settings
.
Click the Weather tab.
Select the city on the left hand column.
Click the Add button.
Metric or Imperial?
Evolution supports both
Imperial and Metric measurement for weather
reports. Imperial units are sometimes called British
units, but are used almost exclusively in the United
States. Britain, and most of the rest of the world, use
metric units.
Customizing Your News Feeds
To customize your news feeds:
Click Summary in the Shortcut Bar.
Click
Tools
Summary Settings
.
Click the News Feeds tab.
Select the news news feed on the left column.
Click the Add button.
Click OK.
Customizing Your Mail Summary
To customize your mail summary:
Click Summary in the Shortcut Bar.
Click
Tools
Summary Settings
.
Click the Mail tab.
Select the mail folder you want to see in the preview on the left.
Click Add.
Customizing Your Schedule Summary
To customize your calendar summary:
Click Summary in the Shortcut Bar.
Click
Tools
Summary Settings
.
Click the Schedule tab.
Choose whether you'd like appointments displayed for one
day, five days, a week, or a month.
Choose whether you'd like to display all tasks, or just
the tasks due today.
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* | Suppress command echo. | olgeni | 2003-02-23 | 1 | -1/+1 |
* | De-pkg-comment. | knu | 2003-02-21 | 1 | -0/+1 |
* | Fix allegro-config --libs to report correct library and bump PORTREVISION. | pat | 2002-11-24 | 1 | -1/+3 |
* | o Rollback PORTCOMMENT modifications while this feature's implementation | lioux | 2002-11-11 | 1 | -1/+0 |
* | - Fix LIB_DEPENDS | ijliao | 2002-11-07 | 1 | -25/+33 |
* | upgrade to 4.0.2 | ijliao | 2002-10-22 | 1 | -208/+12 |
* | Fix plist and installation | kris | 2002-09-18 | 1 | -3/+3 |
* | Drop maintainership. | olgeni | 2002-09-16 | 1 | -2/+2 |
* | Use proper names for installed libraries. | olgeni | 2002-03-28 | 1 | -0/+5 |
* | Unbreak and fix the bogus plist. | olgeni | 2002-03-25 | 1 | -2/+0 |
* | BROKEN: plist incorrect | kris | 2002-03-25 | 1 | -0/+2 |
* | Update port to version 4.0.0. | olgeni | 2002-02-24 | 1 | -203/+204 |
* | Allow this port to support arbitrary versions of autoconf. | will | 2002-01-07 | 1 | -1/+5 |