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<chapter id="usage-summary">
  <title>Getting Oriented with the Ximian Evolution Summary</title>
  
  <sect1 id="summary-intro">
    <title>Using the Summary</title>
    <para>
      The Ximian Evolution Summary can show you what you need to know
      quickly.  It will show you your tasks for that day, how many
      emails are waiting for you, and much more.
    </para>
    <para>
      To begin using your Summary, click on the <guilabel>Shortcut
      Bar</guilabel> or <guilabel>Summary</guilabel> at the top of the
      <guilabel>Folder Bar</guilabel>.  By default, you will see:
      <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Weather Reports
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        News feeds from the Internet
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Mail summary
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Appointments
      </para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Tasks
      </para>
    </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </para>
  </sect1>
  <sect1 id="customizing-summary">
    <title>Customizing the Summary's Modules</title>
    <para>
      <application>Evolution's</application> modules can be customized
      to suit your needs.  For example, you can choose which mail
      boxes are summarized, and which news services appear.
    </para>


  <note id="summary-http-proxy">
    <title>Using the Summary through an HTTP Proxy</title>
    <para>
      If you use an HTTP proxy, <application>Ximian
    Evolution</application> must be able to find it through the
    <systemitem>gnome-vfs</systemitem> subsystem before it can
    access news and weather from the Internet.  This is also
    the case if you wish to load remote images into HTML mail
    message.  
  </para>
  <para>
    You can find the proxy settings tool in the Control Center.
  </para>
</note>


    <sect2 id="customizing-summary-weather">
      <title>Customizing the Weather Summary</title>
      <para>
    To add a city to be displayed in the weather:
    <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
      
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Choose
          <menuchoice>
        <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
        <guimenuitem>Settings</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> and
        select the <guilabel>Summary Preferences</guilabel> tool.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click the <guilabel>Weather</guilabel> tab.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Select the city on the left hand column.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click the <guibutton>Add</guibutton> button.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
      </para>
      <para>
        Below the list of cities, you can select the time, in seconds,
        between updates, and whether you wish to see temperatures in Celsius
        or Farenheit.
      </para>

    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="customizing-feeds">
      <title>Customizing Your News Feeds</title>
      <para>
    To customize your news feeds:
    <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Choose
          <menuchoice>
        <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
        <guimenuitem>Settings</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> and
        select the <guilabel>Summary Preferences</guilabel> tool. Then, choose the
        <guilabel>News Feeds</guilabel> tab.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          In the left hand column, select the news feed to add to
          your display.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click the <guibutton>Add</guibutton> button.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
      </para>
      <para>
        You can also add your own news feeds. Evolution will display
        RDF formatted XML news feeds from the website of your
        choice. For most sites, it's a file called "index.rdf."
      </para>

    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="customizing-mail">
      <title>Customizing Your Mail Summary</title>
      <para>
    To customize your mail summary:
    <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
        <listitem>
        <para>
          Choose
          <menuchoice>
        <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
        <guimenuitem>Settings</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> and
        select the <guilabel>Summary Preferences</guilabel> tool.
        </para>
      </listitem>   
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click the <guibutton>Mail</guibutton> tab.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
              Expand the folder tree to the folders you wish to
              display in the Summary.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click the checkbox to the left of that folder.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
      </para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="customizing-cal">
      <title>Customizing Your Schedule Summary</title>
      <para>
    To customize your calendar summary:
    <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
     <listitem>
        <para>
          Choose
          <menuchoice>
        <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
        <guimenuitem>Settings</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> and
        select the <guilabel>Summary Preferences</guilabel> tool.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click the <guibutton>Schedule</guibutton> tab.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Choose whether you'd like appointments displayed for one
          day, five days, a week, or a month.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
            Choose whether you'd like to display all tasks, or just
            the tasks due today.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
      </para>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>
</chapter>