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@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@
<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
- type="topic"
- id="import-account">
+ xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/"
+ type="topic" style="task"
+ id="import-account">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="add-account"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="remove-account"/>
- <desc>Import an existing account to <app>Empathy</app>.</desc>
+ <desc>Import an account from another instant messaging application.</desc>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-22" status="draft"/>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-22" status="review"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.3" date="2009-09-02" status="review">
+ <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-09-02" status="done"/>
+ </revision>
<credit type="author">
<name>Peter Haslam</name>
<email>peter.haslam@freenet.de</email>
@@ -17,6 +21,10 @@
<name>Milo Casagrande</name>
<email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
</credit>
+ <credit>
+ <name>Shaun McCance</name>
+ <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
+ </credit>
<copyright>
<year>2009</year>
<name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
@@ -26,63 +34,30 @@
<title>Import an existing account</title>
+ <p>The first time you run <app>Empathy</app>, it will offer to import your
+ accounts from other instant messaging applications. Currently, the only
+ supported application is <app>Pidgin</app>.</p>
+
<steps>
<item>
- <p>
- From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, do 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 <gui>Import Accounts...</gui>.
- </p>
+ <p>Run <app>Empathy</app> for the first time. An assistant will offer
+ you a number of options to create new accounts.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>
- From the <gui>Import Accounts</gui> dialog, select the <gui>Import</gui>
- check-box next to the accounts you want to import.
- </p>
+ <p>Select <gui>Yes, import my account details from</gui> and click
+ <gui>Forward</gui>.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>
- Click <gui>OK</gui> to import the accounts to <app>Empathy</app>.
- </p>
+ <p>Select the check box next to each account you wish to import.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>
- To enable the new account, select the
- <gui>Enabled</gui> check-box next to
- the name of the account in the box on the left of the dialog.
- </p>
+ <p>Click <gui>Apply</gui>.</p>
</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>
-
<note>
- <p>
- At the moment <app>Empathy</app> can import accounts only from the instant
- messaging program <app>Pidgin</app>. For more information about <app>Pidgin</app>,
- see the <link href="http://www.pidgin.im/">Pidgin website</link>.
- </p>
+ <p>It is not currently possible to import accounts after you have completed
+ the first-run assistant.</p>
</note>
</page>