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   <title>My Evolution</title>
    <para>
       My Evolution is designed to show you a
       summary of important information: the appointments for a given
       day, important email, and so forth. To see your My Evolution, 
       click on the <guibutton>My Evolution</guibutton>
       button in the shortcut bar, or select the
       <guilabel>My Evolution</guilabel> folder in the folder
       bar.
    </para>

    <sect1 id="exec-intro">
      <title>Introducing My Evolution</title>
      <para>
        The first thing you'll want to do with My Evolution
        is add a service. Go to
      <menuchoice>
    <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
    <guimenuitem>My Evolution Settings</guimenuitem>
      </menuchoice>
      then select one of the available
      services.  Services may vary depending upon your system, but
      most installations will have at least the following options:
      <variablelist>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Mail</term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Display amount of unread email in your selected folders.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

          <varlistentry>
             <term>RDF Summary</term>
             <listitem>
               <para>
                  News headlines from sites that allow this
                  feature.  The default
                  is news about the GNOME project from <ulink
                  url="www.gnome.org/gnome-news/">gnotices</ulink>.
               </para>
             </listitem>
           </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Weather</term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Shows you the current weather for the cities of your choice.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Schedule</term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Lets you see the events for the day.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </para>
    <para>
      <application>Evolution</application> comes with ... enabled by
      default.
    </para>
    <sect2 id="new-components">
      <title>Adding New Components</title>
      <para>
    To add a new service:
    <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Choose
          <menuchoice>
        <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
        <guimenuitem>My Evolution Settings</guimenuitem>
          </menuchoice>
          from the menubar.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Select the service you wish to add by clicking on the respective
          tab.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Choose <guibutton>OK</guibutton> when finished configuring the
          item.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
      </para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="delete-components">
      <title>Deleting Components</title>
      <para>
    To remove a service from My Evolution, do the following:
    <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Choose
          <menuchoice>
        <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
        <guimenuitem>My Evolution Settings</guimenuitem>
          </menuchoice>
          from the menubar.
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Click the <guilabel>Enable</guilabel> button in the component you
          would like to disable.
          <!-- This is incorrect.  I am going to ask Iain if he could throw
          in an Enable button -->
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
      </para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="modifying-components">
      <title>Modifying Components</title>
      <para>
    Chances are, the components that you setup aren't going to be setup for
    your needs.  For instance, you may choose that you want to use different
    city choices than the default settings.
    <application>Evolution</application> lets you configure all the
    components in My Evolution.
      </para>
      <sect3 id="modifying-components-mail">
    <title>Customizing My Evolution Mail Summary</title>
    <para>
      To modify mail:
      <orderedlist numeration="arabic">
        <listitem>
          <para>
        Choose
        <menuchoice>
          <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
          <guimenuitem>My Evolution Settings</guimenuitem>
        </menuchoice>
        from the menubar.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
        Click the <guilabel>Mail</guilabel> tab at the top of the
        window.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
    </para>
    <para>
      The <guilabel>Mail</guilabel> service window is broken up into two
      sections.  The left section is where your mail folders are listed.
      The right section shows which folders are displayed.
    </para>
    <para>
      To add a folder to the summary, click on a folder in the
      <guilabel>All folders</guilabel> section and click the
      <guibutton>Add</guibutton> button.
    </para>
    <para>
      To remove a folder from the service, click on the folder in the
      <guilabel>Display folders</guilabel> section and click the
      <guibutton>Remove</guibutton> button.
    </para>
      </sect3>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>
</chapter>