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* C/fig/mainwindow-pic.png: new file * C/fig/mail-druid-pic.png: new file * C/fig: New directory, for figure graphics. * C/apx-gloss.sgml: new file. glossary. thx. to kevin from chicago. * C/usage-setup.sgml: More accurate description of druid, and moved to mail section-- see usage-mail.sgml entry. This is a new location for this entity, and it may move more later. * C/usage-mainwindow.sgml: altered description of starting evolution. added screenshot for main-window picture. * C/usage-mail.sgml: added screenshots, added coverage of setup druid and put it into get-and-send section, which is probably not where it should stay. Also started filter druid coverage and clarified examples, esp. in Bcc: section. * C/usage-contact.sgml: Clarified examples. * C/preface.sgml: rewording of "what is" and "about book" sections. * C/evolution-guide.sgml: added glossary entity APX-GLOSS, altered phrasing in part intros, changed order of Setup-assistant section. * C/config-prefs.sgml: changed wording, removed ref. to re-running setup assistant. svn path=/trunk/; revision=3222
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+<glossary id="glossary">
+
+ <title>Glossary</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="attachment">
+ <glossterm>Attachment</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Any file sent with an e-mail for the reciever to download.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+<glossentry id="automatic-indexing">
+ <glossterm>Automatic Indexing</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Pre-sorting procedure that allows
+ <application>Evolution</application> to refer to data quickly.
+ It enables faster searches and decreases memory usage for
+ data displays.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="bcc">
+ <glossterm>Bcc (Blind Carbon Copy)</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ A way of addressing a message. Bcc is used to send a group of
+ people an e-mail, while hiding their names and addresses from each
+ other.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="cc">
+ <glossterm>Cc (Carbon Copy)</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Carbon-copies are used to send a 3rd party a copy of the e-mail,
+ so they an keep up to date on a conversation, without being in the
+ To: list.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="druid">
+ <glossterm>Druid</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ A small program or script used to help configure or set up some
+ larger program. The <application>mail setup druid</application>
+ helps you ready your email system for use. Druids are the Linux
+ equivalent of "Assistants" and "Wizards."
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="evolution">
+ <glossterm>Evolution</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ <application>Evolution</application> is the <acronym> GNOME
+ </acronym> groupware application.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="execute">
+ <glossterm>Execute</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ To run a program. Any file that can be run is called an
+ executable. In order to be execute program, a user must have
+ the proper permissions.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="filter">
+ <glossterm>Filter</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Within <application>Evolution</application>, a filter is a method
+ of sorting mail automatically.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="forward">
+ <glossterm>Forward</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ By forwarding an e-mail, the user can send a third party a message
+ which was sent to the user originally.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="groupware">
+ <glossterm>Groupware</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Groupware is a term describing an application who has many
+ productivity features built into one program.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="haiku">
+ <glossterm>Haiku</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ A Japanese form of poetry. Haiku are unrhymed, and
+ three lines long. The first and last lines should have five
+ syllables, and the second line seven syllables. The subject
+ matter is traditionally related to the seasons.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="html">
+ <glossterm>HTML</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Hyper-text Markup Language(<acronym>HTML</acronym>) is the layout
+ language which all webpages are written in. HTML can be used
+ inside of e-mails to insert images, justfiy text different ways,
+ and even include webpages inside the e-mail itself.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="hot-key">
+ <glossterm>Hot Key</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Hot-keys are keyboard combinations used to do actions on a
+ computer instead of using the mouse to do the same action.
+ Hot-keys can speed up computer usage.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="ical">
+ <glossterm>iCal</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ <application>iCal</application> is the program which
+ <application>Evolution</application> uses to manage the calendar
+ section.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="live-doc">
+ <glossterm>Live Document</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ A document embedded in or attached an email message that
+ contains scripting or other active contents. For example, a
+ <application>Gnumeric</application> spreadsheet page could be
+ included in a message, and the recipient could alter some of the
+ data from within <application>Evolution</application> without
+ having to start another program.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="mail-client">
+ <glossterm>Mail Client</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ A mail client is the application which a user reads and sends
+ their e-mail with.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="nautilus">
+ <glossterm>Nautilus</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ <application>Nautilus</application> is the next generation file
+ manager for <acronym>GNOME</acronym> being written by Eazel.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="nickname">
+ <glossterm>Nickname</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ An alias for an e-mail address.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="script">
+ <glossterm>Script</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ A program which is written in an interpreted language, which can
+ be executed.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="shortcut-bar">
+ <glossterm>Shortcut Bar</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ The <interface>Shortcut Bar</interface> is where the user accesses
+ all the components of <application>Evolution</application> from.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="spam">
+ <glossterm>Spam</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ Spam: useless e-mail. Spam normally comes in forms of
+ chain-letters and advertisements for websites or services.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="vfolder">
+ <glossterm>vFolder</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ vFolders allow an e-mail to be shared among multiple folders, so
+ it appears that theres a copy of the e-mail in each folder.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+</glossary>