2008 Ubuntu Documentation Project Ubuntu Documentation Project &legal; Milo Casagrande Ubuntu Documentation Project

milo_casagrande@yahoo.it

Seth Dudenhofer Ubuntu Documentation Project

sdudenhofer@gmail.com

Empathy Manual V&manrevision; &date; Milo Casagrande milo_casagrande@yahoo.it Seth Dudenhofer sdudenhofer@gmail.com Ubuntu Documentation Project This manual describes version &appversion; of &appname;. To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &app; application or this manual, follow the directions in the GNOME Feedback Page. &appname; is an application for instant messaging. Empathy empathy istant messaging &app; is a multi-protocol instant messaging program for the GNOME Desktop. With &app; you can keep in touch with all of your friends through lots of supported instant messaging services. &app; supports the following services: AIM Google Talk ICQ IRC Jabber MSN Salut SIP Yahoo You can start &app; in the following ways: Applications menu Choose Internet Empathy Instant Messenger . Command line Type empathy and then press Enter. When you start &app; the following window is shown.

Shows &app; main window. Contains the titlebar, the menubar, contact list, status icon and status arrow button list.

describes the components of &app;'s main window. Component Description Menubar Contains menus used to perform actions in &app;. Status Drop-Down List Allows to update the user's status. Account Button Opens the Accounts dialog. Contact List Shows all the available contacts and their associated status. When you start &app; for the first time and you don't have configured any account yet, the following dialog is shown.

Shows &app; account creation dialog.

From here, you can configure and create your accounts. See for more information. To use &app; you need at least one account of the supported services. If you don't already have an account and you don't have your user name and password, you need to register a new account (see ). In order to talk with other users (called contatcs), you need to use the same service they are using. If, for example, one contact is using the Jabber service, you need to have an account registerd with that service. &app; can handle as many accounts on any supported services as you want and you can have them all open at the same time. You can freely register an account on any of the following services. Follow the instructions reported on each website on how to register your new account. At the end of the registration process you should have a user name (or an account ID) and a password that you will use to create the account in &app;. Click on the name of the service to visit its website: The AIM service. The Google Talk service. The ICQ service. The MSN service. The Yahoo service. For registering a SIP account, you can use one of the following service: The Ekiga service. The FWD (Free World Dialup) service. The Sipphone service. You can use one of the following services if you already have a Jabber account: Salut To create an account, proceed as follow: From the main window (Contact List) click on the account button to open the Accounts dialog. Click on the Add button. From the Type drop-down list choose the service you wish to create an account for, then click on the Create button. Fill the required fields with your user name and password. To enable the new account, select the Enabled check-box next to the name of the account. To disable an account, proceed as follow: From the main window (Contact List) click on the account button to open the Accounts dialog. Select the account you wish to disable in the box on the left of the dialog and deselect the Enabled check-box. To remove an account, proceed as follow: From the main window (Contact List) click on the account button to open the Accounts dialog. Select the account you wish to disable in the box on the left of the dialog. Click on the Remove button. A dialog will be shown asking for confirmation. Click on the Remove button to remove the account. All the contacts are handled within &app;'s main window. To add a new contact, proceed as follow: From the main window choose Chat Add Contact... . The New Contact dialog will be shown. From the Account drop-down list, choose the service used by the contact you are adding. In the Identifier text-box type the address of the contact in the form of user name@service domain. In the Alias text-box type the name you want to give at the the new contact. Click on Add to add the new contact. To remove a contact, proceed as follow: From the main window, select the contact you would like to remove and right-click on it. From the popup menu, choose Remove to remove the contact.