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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
  type="topic"
  id="add-account">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="remove-account"/>
    <desc>Add a new account to <app>Empathy</app>.</desc>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-06-24" status="draft"/>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-10" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-27" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
      <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
    </credit>
    <copyright>
      <year>2009</year>
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
    </copyright>
    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
  </info>

  <title>Add a new account</title>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>
          From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, perform one of the following:
      </p>
      <list>
          <item>
            <p>
              Press <key>F4</key>.
          </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
            Choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Accounts</gui></guiseq>.
          </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        Click on the <gui style="button">Add</gui> button.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        From the <gui>Add new</gui> drop-down list choose
        the service you wish to add an account for, then click
        on the <gui style="button">Create</gui> button.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        Fill the required fields with your <em>user name</em> and <em>password</em>.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        Click on <gui style="button">Connect</gui> to enable the new account.
      </p>

      <!-- TODO: check if it's a bug or what. In case, this part needs to
      be removed or we must signal it as a bug! -->

      <note style="warning">
        <p>
          If you do not click on <gui style="button">Connect</gui>, and you close
          the dialog, the account will not be created, and it will be necessary to
          create it again.
        </p>
        <p>
          If you do not click on <gui style="button">Connect</gui>, and you select
          another account from the dialog, the data you inserted will be lost.
        </p>
      </note>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <note style="tip">
    <p>
      If you want to change the name that identifies the account in the <gui>Accounts</gui>
      dialog, double-click on the name of the account in the box on the left of the dialog
      and type the new name.
    </p>
  </note>

</page>