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overhaul. still need to improve examples.
2002-06-24 Aaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com> * C/config-prefs.sgml: overhaul. still need to improve examples. * C/usage-mail.sgml: link to somewhere i have deleted. * C/usage-contact.sgml: fix sharing section more svn path=/trunk/; revision=17266
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-rw-r--r--help/ChangeLog8
5 files changed, 254 insertions, 276 deletions
diff --git a/help/C/config-prefs.sgml b/help/C/config-prefs.sgml
index 15c9bf15a1..eae8247681 100644
--- a/help/C/config-prefs.sgml
+++ b/help/C/config-prefs.sgml
@@ -11,70 +11,142 @@
<application>Evolution</application> settings. This chapter
will tell you how to do just that.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Evolution 1.2 brings with it a redesigned comprehensive
+ settings window that you can open by choosing <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Configure</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, no matter
+ where you are in Evolution. On the left half of the settings
+ window is a column, similar to the Evolution shortcut bar,
+ which lets you choose which portion of Evolution to
+ customize. The right half of the window is where you'll make
+ your actual changes.
+ </para>
- <sect1 id="config-prefs-mail">
- <title>Mail Settings</title>
- <para>
- To change your mail settings, select <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Mail
- Settings</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the Inbox. This
- will open the <interface>mail preferences window</interface>,
- illustrated in <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail-fig">. Mail
- preferences are separated into several categories:
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Accounts</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This allows you to create and alter one or more
- identities for your email.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Display</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Allows you to edit how email appears.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Composer</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Customizes the behavior of the email message composer.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Other</guilabel></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Configures miscellanious aspects of
- <application>Evolution</application> such as character
- set and encryption tools.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- </para>
<!-- ==============Figure===================== -->
<figure id="config-prefs-mail-fig">
- <title>Account Editor Window</title>
+ <title>Changing Mail Settings</title>
<screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Account Editor Window</screeninfo>
+ <screeninfo>Changing Mail Settings</screeninfo>
<mediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="figures/config-mail" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber">
</imageobject></mediaobject>
</screenshot>
</figure>
<!-- ==============End of Figure================-->
+ <para>
+ There are eight items you can customize. From top to bottom, they
+ are:
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Mail Accounts</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Here, add or change information about your email
+ accounts: the servers to which you connect, the way you
+ download mail, your password authentication mode, and so
+ forth. This is the most complex item in the list, and is
+ covered in <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail-identity">.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Folder Settings</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Here, you can choose the default folders for various
+ components of Evolution, the folders that will be cached
+ locally when you go to offline mode, and the folders that
+ Evolution will use when it is searching for
+ autocompletion information as you address a mail.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Mail Preferences</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ These are overall mail reading preferences: display
+ settings, notification options, security, and so
+ forth. These are covered in <xref
+ linkend="config-prefs-mail-display">.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Composer Preferences</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Settings for the way that you use the mail composer:
+ shortcuts, signatures, spelling, and so forth. One fun
+ feature here is the ability to substitute graphical
+ smiley-faces for "emoticons" such as :) that many people
+ use in email. This tool is covered in <xref
+ linkend="config-prefs-mail-composer">.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Calendar and Tasks</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Here, you can set the way the calendar behaves, including
+ your time zone and the length of your work-week.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Directory Servers</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If you want to use a shared directory server (LDAP
+ server), this is the place to set it up.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Font Preferences</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Choose the fonts that Evolution will use to display email
+ here. You can choose fonts for the mail composer by
+ selecting <menuchoice> <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> from
+ within the composer window.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Summary Preferences</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Set the mail folders, news feeds, schedule summary
+ length, and weather locations to be displayed here.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </para>
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-identity">
- <title>Working with the Accounts Tab</title>
+ <sect1 id="config-prefs-mail">
+ <title>Mail Settings</title>
+ <para>
+ The first few tools, with the exception of the folder tool,
+ cover mail tasks:
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-identity">
+ <title>Working with Mail Accounts</title>
<para>
<application>Ximian Evolution</application> allows you to
maintain multiple accounts, or identities. This is useful
@@ -105,6 +177,7 @@
<guibutton>Edit</guibutton> to open the account editor
dialog.
</para>
+
<para>
The account editor dialog has six sections:
<variablelist>
@@ -320,6 +393,7 @@ smtp.omniport.com:143
</variablelist>
</para>
</sect2>
+
<sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-display">
<title>Mail Display Options</title>
@@ -370,148 +444,92 @@ smtp.omniport.com:143
<sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-composer">
<title>Message Composer Preferences</title>
-
<para>
- Mercifully, there are only four preferences you can prefer in
- the message composer preferences dialog:
+ There are three whole tabs of settings you can change for the
+ message composer. The General tab covers shortcuts and
+ assorted behavior, and the other two control signatures and
+ spell checking. In the General tab, you can set:
+
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Send mail in HTML format by default </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If you would like all email messages that you compose
- to begin in HTML format, leave this box checked. You
- can convert messages between HTML and plain text by
- selecting the <menuchoice> <guimenu>Format</guimenu>
- <guimenuitem>HTML</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> toggle
- in the message composer.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Default Forward style</term>
+ <term>Shortcuts Type</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Select from:
- <simplelist>
- <member><guilabel>Attachment:</guilabel> the
- message you forward appended to the message you send
- as a seperate file.</member>
-
- <member> <guilabel>Inline:</guilabel> The message
- you forward is included at the end of the message
- you send.</member>
-
- <member>
- <guilabel>Quoted:</guilabel> The message
- you forward is included at the end of the message
- you send, and a greater-than symbol (&gt;) is
- inserted at the beginning of each line to
- indicate that it is quoted.
- </member>
- </simplelist>
+ Choose a keyboard shortcut scheme: do you prefer
+ keyboard shortcuts similar to those of Microsoft
+ Windows, XEmacs, or Emacs?
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Prompt when sending messages with an empty subject</term>
+ <term>Default Behavior</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The composer will warn you if you try to send a
- message without a subject.
+ Choose how you will normally forward and reply
+ messages, what character set they will use, whether
+ they will be in HTML, and whether that HTML can
+ contain smiley face images.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Prompt when sending messages with only Bcc recipients defined</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The composer will warn you if you try to send a
- message that has only <guilabel>Bcc</guilabel>
- recipients. This is important because some mail
- servers will fail to honor blind carbon copy if you
- do not have at least one recipient that is visible to
- all readers.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-other">
- <title>Other Mail Preferences</title>
- <para>
- Not everything fits neatly into categories. This tab
- contains some miscellaneous configuration options that
- didn't fit anywhere else.
- <variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term>
- <guilabel>PGP binary path</guilabel>
- </term>
+ <term>Alerts</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The complete path to your external encryption tool On
- most Linux systems, this will be
- <filename>/usr/bin/gpg</filename>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <guilabel>Remember PGP Passphrase until Exit</guilabel>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para> Check this box if you want <application>Ximian
- Evolution</application> to remember your PGP
- passphrase for as long as it is running. You will
- still have to enter your passphrase again each time
- you start <application>Ximian Evolution</application>.
- </para>
+ There are two optional alerts here:
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Prompt when sending messages with an empty subject</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The composer will warn you if you try to send a
+ message without a subject.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Prompt when sending messages with only Bcc recipients defined</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The composer will warn you if you try to send a
+ message that has only <guilabel>Bcc</guilabel>
+ recipients. This is important because some mail
+ servers will fail to honor blind carbon copy if you
+ do not have at least one recipient that is visible to
+ all readers.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </para>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <guilabel>Default Character Encoding</guilabel>
- </term>
- <listitem> <para> Choose a default character encoding for
- your messages.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <guilabel>Empty Trash Folders on Exit</guilabel>
- </term>
- <listitem> <para> If you would like to expunge all deleted
- mail when you quit <application>Ximian
- Evolution</application>, check this box.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <guilabel>Log filter actions to:</guilabel>
- </term>
- <listitem> <para> If you like, you can have
- <application>Ximian Evolution</application> write all
- its message filter actions to a log file. Select a log
- file here.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
+ <para>
+ The signature editor is new for Evolution 1.2. It allows you
+ to create several different signatures in plain text or in
+ HTML, and to specify which of them will be added to emails
+ you create in the message composer. If you prefer to use an
+ alternate signature or none at all, you can select it from
+ the mail composer itself.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In the spell-checking tool, you can set spelling options,
+ including the language or languages you will use. Note that you
+ must install the gnome-spell package, available through Red
+ Carpet, for spell-checking to be available in
+ Evolution. Alternate dictionaries are aslo available through
+ Red Carpet and are detected automatically if you have installed
+ them.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
<!-- NOT FOR 1.0, see usage-mail.sgml
@@ -536,7 +554,7 @@ smtp.omniport.com:143
</para>
</sect2>
-->
-
+ </sect1>
<sect1 id="config-prefs-cal">
<title>Configuring the Calendar</title>
@@ -611,7 +629,10 @@ smtp.omniport.com:143
<term>Start of day</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Says what time of the day your weekday starts. This will show all times till the end of the day, regardless of there is an appointment during the time period.
+ Says what time of the day your weekday starts. This
+ will show all times till the end of the day,
+ regardless of there is an appointment during the time
+ period.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -623,13 +644,26 @@ smtp.omniport.com:143
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Alerts</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If you'd like to be warned before you delete any
+ appointment, or to have a reminder automatically
+ appear for each event, select the check boxes here.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-display">
<title>Display</title>
<para>
- The <interface>Display</interface> section lets you configure some visual properties of the calendar.
+ The <interface>Display</interface> section lets you choose how
+ your appointments and tasks will appear in your calendar.
</para>
<para>The display properties you can set are:
@@ -638,35 +672,9 @@ smtp.omniport.com:143
<term>Time divisions</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Sets the increments shown on the daily view in the calendar. You can set this to be:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 5 minutes
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 10 minutes
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 15 minutes
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 30 minutes
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- 60 minutes
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
+ Sets the increments shown on the daily view in the
+ calendar. You can set this to be anywhere from five
+ minutes to an hour, in five minute increments.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -674,7 +682,10 @@ smtp.omniport.com:143
<term>Show appointment end times in week and month views</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- If there is space, <application>Evolution</application> will show the end times in the week and month views for each appointment.
+ If there is space,
+ <application>Evolution</application> will show the end
+ times in the week and month views for each
+ appointment.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -682,7 +693,8 @@ smtp.omniport.com:143
<term>Compress weekends in month view</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- If checked, your weekends will be shown in one box, instead of one for each day in the month view.
+ If checked, your weekends will be shown in one box,
+ instead of one for each day in the month view.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -691,25 +703,18 @@ smtp.omniport.com:143
<term>Show week numbers in date navigator</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- This will show the week numbers next to the respective weeks in the calendar.
+ This will show the week numbers next to the respective
+ weeks in the calendar.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-tasklist">
- <title>Task List Settings</title>
- <para>
- You can choose what information the To Do list displays and the
- way it is displayed.
- <variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Tasks due today</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Configures what color to set your tasks that are due today to.
+ Configures what color to set your tasks that are due
+ today to.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -717,40 +722,14 @@ smtp.omniport.com:143
<term>Overdue tasks</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Configures what color to set your overdue items to.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-other">
- <title>Other Calendar Settings</title>
- <para>
- This configures miscellaneous items for the calendar and todo list's functionality.
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Ask for confirmation when deleting items</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- When you delete an item in either the Task List or the Calendar, you will be prompted to confirm that you want to delete the item.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Create new appointments with a default reminder</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- All your appointments will be created using a default reminder enabled. You can still change what way you are reminded though. If enabled, you can then set the time before your appointment to be reminded.
+ Choose the color for overdue tasks.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</sect2>
- </sect1>
-
+ </sect1>
<sect1 id="config-prefs-contact">
<title>Managing the Addressbook</title>
<para>
@@ -887,39 +866,26 @@ smtp.omniport.com:143
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
-<!-- I gotta finish this example -->
+
+
+<!-- Finish this example:
+
<example id="ldap-config-example">
<title>LDAP Configuration</title>
<para>
- Rich works at a large chip manufacturer. He needs to
- access the company's LDAP server. Their LDAP address is
- wemakechips.com.
+ Rich works at omniport.net and needs to access the
+ company's LDAP server so that he can look up the email
+ addresses of his co-workers.
</para>
<para>
- His Account Name would be: We Make Chips Employees
+ He uses his email address, rich@omniport.net,
</para>
<para>
- His Server Name would be: ldap.wemakechips.com
+ His Server Name is: ldap.wemakechips.com
</para>
</example>
+-->
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
-
-
-<!--
- <sect1 id="config-prefs-general">
- <title>General Preferences</title>
- <para>
- Additional configuration options will be covered here, as
- they become available.
- </para>
- </sect1>
--->
-</chapter>
-
-
-
-
-
-
+</chapter> \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/help/C/figures/config-mail.png b/help/C/figures/config-mail.png
index 32d03785cd..6e3f2a1e87 100644
--- a/help/C/figures/config-mail.png
+++ b/help/C/figures/config-mail.png
Binary files differ
diff --git a/help/C/usage-contact.sgml b/help/C/usage-contact.sgml
index c66de53b7a..5424ce17c5 100644
--- a/help/C/usage-contact.sgml
+++ b/help/C/usage-contact.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
<!--
<!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN">
-->
+
<chapter id="usage-contact">
<title>Working with Your Contacts</title>
<para>
@@ -503,14 +504,15 @@
</sect1>
<sect1 id="usage-contact-sharing">
- <title>Sharing your Cards</title>
+ <title>LDAP: Shared Addressbooks on a Network</title>
+
<para>
The <glossterm linkend="ldap">LDAP</glossterm> protocol was
- created to let users share contact information over a network.
- LDAP allows a company to maintain a shared set of contact
- information for a company or department. Many companies keep a
- common LDAP address book for all their employees or for client
- contacts.
+ created to let users share contact information over a network by
+ sharing access to a central address book. LDAP allows a company
+ to maintain a shared set of contact information for a company or
+ department. Many companies keep a common LDAP address book for
+ all their employees or for client contacts.
</para>
<para>
@@ -546,8 +548,9 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- LDAP servers do not normally permit individual users to
- alter or delete cards.
+ You cannot add, delete, or alter cards on the LDAP
+ server. If you need to change information there, you
+ will need to speak to your system administrator
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -594,3 +597,4 @@
</chapter>
+
diff --git a/help/C/usage-mail.sgml b/help/C/usage-mail.sgml
index ad984dd335..a027162286 100644
--- a/help/C/usage-mail.sgml
+++ b/help/C/usage-mail.sgml
@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@
<para>
To send all your mail as HTML by default, set your mail
format preferences in the mail configuration dialog. See
- <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail-other"> for more
+ <xref linkend="config-prefs-mail"> for more
information.
</para>
<para>
diff --git a/help/ChangeLog b/help/ChangeLog
index 796d92acc2..a16f328557 100644
--- a/help/ChangeLog
+++ b/help/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2002-06-24 Aaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com>
+
+ * C/config-prefs.sgml: overhaul. still need to improve examples.
+
+ * C/usage-mail.sgml: link to somewhere i have deleted.
+
+ * C/usage-contact.sgml: fix sharing section more
+
2002-06-10 Aaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com>
* C/usage-contact.sgml: some of this was shamefully inaccurate.