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Search your previous conversations.
</desc>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-17" status="stub"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-19" status="review"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Milo Casagrande</name>
<email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
@@ -22,16 +23,16 @@
<title>Previous conversations</title>
<p>
- <app>Empathy</app> automatically saves all your text conversations with your contacts,
- and you can perform two different kinds of search: a normal text search, or a
- per-conversation search.
+ <app>Empathy</app> automatically saves all your text conversations you have
+ with your contacts, and lets you perform two different kinds of search: a
+ normal text search, or a per-conversation search.
</p>
<p>
The normal search is a <em>full text</em> search: it will search the exact text in
all your previous conversations.
</p>
<p>
- The per-conversation search permits you to limit the search to a particular
+ The per-conversation search permits you to limit the text search to a particular
contact and conversation, and permits you to look at all the previous
conversations you had with your contacts.
</p>
@@ -46,7 +47,8 @@
<steps>
<item>
<p>
- To start searching your previous conversations, perform one of the following:
+ To start searching your previous conversations, from the <gui>Contact List</gui>
+ window, perform one of the following:
</p>
<list>
<item>
@@ -92,7 +94,10 @@
<item>
<p>
Click on the result to see the exact text you were searching for on the
- bottom pane. The search result will be highlighted.
+ bottom pane.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The search results will be highlighted.
</p>
</item>
</steps>
@@ -114,11 +119,32 @@
<item>
<p>
From the left top pane, select the contact you want to look the previous
- conversations of.
+ conversations of. The previous conversations will be shown on the right pane.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ By default, the last conversation you had will be shown.
+ </p>
+ <note>
+ <p>
+ Based on your account selected and the service of that account, it will
+ be possible to select contacts, IRC rooms or group conversations.
+ </p>
+ </note>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ From the left bottom pane, you can browse your conversations by date. Based
+ on the contact selected, the date in which you had a conversation will
+ be highlighted in bold text.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ To perform a text search, type the text you want to search in the text box
+ at the top of the window.
</p>
<p>
- Based on your account selected, and the service of the account, in this
- pane it will be possible to select contacts, IRC rooms or group conversations.
+ The search results will be highlighted.
</p>
</item>
</steps>