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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
  type="topic"
  id="set-custom-status">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="change-status"/>
      <link type="seealso" xref="status-icons"/>
    <desc>
      Add, edit or delete personal messages for your status.
    </desc>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-06-30" status="draft"/>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-10" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Jim Campbell</name>
      <email>jwcampbell@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <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>Set a custom message</title>

  <p>
    Sometimes you may want to set a custom message for your status, for example to let
    people know that you will be unavailable for a certain period of time.
  </p>
  <p>
    It is possible to set a custom message based on the different statuses available.
  </p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>
        From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click on the drop-down list at
        the top.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        Select the status you want to add a custom message to. You have to select the one
        identified with the label <gui>Custom Message</gui>.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        Enter your custom message in the text box at the top of the window, and
        press <key>Enter</key> to set the message.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        If you want to set the custom message as a favorite, saving it in order to use it
        again, click on the little star on the right of the text box where you wrote your
        custom message.
      </p>
      <p>
        If you do not do it, the custom message will not be available the next time you
        use <app>Empathy</app>. It will be saved only for the current session.
      </p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <section id="edit-custom">

  <title>Edit, remove and add a custom message</title>

  <steps>
    <item>
     <p>
        From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click on the drop-down list at
        the top.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        Select <gui>Edit Custom Message</gui>.
      </p>
    </item>
      <item>
        <list>
          <item>
            <p>
              To edit a custom message:
            </p>
            <steps>
              <item>
                <p>
                  From the <gui>Saved Presets</gui> box, select the status message
                  you want to edit and double-click on it.
              </p>
            </item>
            <item>
              <p>
                Type the new custom message and press <key>Enter</key> to modify it.
              </p>
            </item>
          </steps>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
            To remove a custom message:
          </p>
          <steps>
            <item>
              <p>
                From the <gui>Saved Presets</gui> box, select the status message you want
                to remove.
              </p>
            </item>
            <item>
              <p>
                Click on the <gui>Remove</gui> button.
              </p>
            </item>
          </steps>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
            To add a new custom message, from the <gui>Add New Preset</gui> section:
          </p>
          <steps>
            <item>
              <p>
                Click on the drop-down list to select the status you want to set a custom
                message to.
              </p>
            </item>
            <item>
              <p>
                Click on the text box, and type the new custom message.
              </p>
            </item>
            <item>
              <p>
                Click on <gui>Add</gui> to add the new message to the presets ones.
              </p>
            </item>
          </steps>
        </item>
      </list>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        When finished, click on <gui>Close</gui>.
      </p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <note style="tip">
    <p>
      When you edit or add a new custom message, it will not be set as the current
      status message. You will need to select it from the <gui>Contact List</gui> window.
    </p>
  </note>

  </section>

</page>