From 9175a4df8da8389d0ce5e0bc22a6ac3a64278735 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nobody Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:05:30 +0000 Subject: This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag 'GNOME_CORE_1_2_3'. svn path=/tags/GNOME_CORE_1_2_3/; revision=4939 --- help/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml | 420 ------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 420 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 help/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml (limited to 'help/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml') diff --git a/help/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml b/help/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 8a71f2d4f2..0000000000 --- a/help/C/usage-mainwindow.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,420 +0,0 @@ - - - - The Main Window: Evolution Basics - - Start Evolution by selecting - Evolution from the - Applications of the Main Panel - Menu, or by typing evolution at the - command-line. The first time you run the program, it will create - a directory called evolution in your home - directory, where it will keep all your - Evolution-related files. - - - After Evolution starts - up, you will see the main window, with the - Inbox open. It should look a lot like the - picture in . On the left of - the main window is the shortcut - bar, with several buttons in it. Just underneath the - title bar is a series of menus in the menu - bar, and below that, the tool - bar with buttons for different functions. The largest - part of the main window is taken up by the - actual Inbox, where messages are listed - and displayed. If you're running the program for the first time, - you'll have just one message: a welcome from Helix Code. - - - -
- Evolution Main Window and Inbox - - Evolution Main Window - - - -
- - - - - - The Way Evolution Looks - - The appearance of both Evolution - and GNOME is very easy to - customize, so your screen might not look like this picture. - You might configure Evolution to - start with a different view, without the shortcut - bar, or with the folder bar - instead. - - - - - - The Shortcut Bar - - Evolution's most important job is - to give you access to your information and help you use it - quickly. One way it does that is through the - shortcut bar, the column on the left - hand side of the main window. The large buttons with names - like Inbox and - Contacts are the shortcuts, and you can - select different groups of shortcuts by clicking the - rectangular category buttons. - - - The category buttons are Evolution - Shortcuts and Internet - Directories. When you click on them, they'll slide - up and down to give you access to different sorts of shortcuts. - When you first start Evolution, you - are looking at the Evolution Shortcuts - category. If you click Internet - Directories, it will slide up and you'll see buttons - for the Bigfoot and - Netcenter directories, as well as any - others you or your system administrator might have added. - Internet directories behave a lot like the local contact - manager, which is covered in . - - - Take a look at the Evolution Shortcuts - again. They are: - - - - - - - Inbox: - - - The Inbox will show you all of your email. Your Inbox - is also where you can access Evolution's tools to - filter, sort, organize, and search your mail. - - - - - - Calendar: - - - The Calendar can store your appointments and To do lists - for you. Connected to a network, you can use it to keep - a group of people on schedule and up to date. - - - - - - Contacts: - - - The Contact Manager holds your addresses, phone numbers, - and contact information. Like calendar information, - contact data can be synchronized with hand-held devices - and shared over a network. - - - - - - - Notes: - - The note pad is your catch-all tool: use it to take - messages from phone conversations, keep small things - organized, write haiku, or whatever - you like. This feature is not yet implemented, but will be - soon. See for more - information. - - - - - - - If you prefer to use a keyboard shortcut, or hot - key, you can use those instead. They're shown next - to their equivalent menu items in the menu bar. You can also set - your own hot keys for functions that don't have any; this is - covered in . If you're using the - keyboard shortcuts you may also want to hide the - shortcut bar by selecting - View Show Shortcut - Bar . - - - - Two Shortcut Bar Tricks - - To remove a shortcut from the shortcut bar, right-click on it - and select Remove. - - To change the way the shortcut bar looks, right-click in an - empoy space on the shortcut bar. From the menu that appears, - you can select icon sizes. - - - - - - The Folder Bar - - The folder bar is a more comprehensive - way to view the information you've stored with - Evolution. It displays all your - appointments, address cards, and email in a tree that's a lot - like a file tree— it starts small - at the top, and branches downwards. On most computers, there - will be three folders at the base. The first one is - VFolders, for virtual folders (discussed in - . The next one is - External Directories, for contact - directories stored on a network. The most important one is - probably Local, which you can use to access - all the data that's stored on your computer. If you click on - the plus sign plus sign next to the Local - folder, you'll see the contents: - - - - Calendar, for appointments and - event listings. - - - - - Contacts, for address cards. - - - - - Directories, for Internet contact directories. - - - - - Inbox, for incoming mail. - - - - - Outbox, which is for drafts of - messages and mail that's already been sent. - - - - - - - - To create a new folder, select - File New - Folder. You'll be asked where you want to - put it, and what kind of folder it should be. You can choose - from three types: Mail, for storing mail, - Calendar for storing calendars, and - Contacts for storing contacts. - - - - Folders Have Limits - - You can always place a folder inside other folders, - regardless of folder type. However, calendars, - contacts, and mail can't go into the same - folder. Calendars have to go in calendar folders, mail - in mail folders, and contacts in contact folders. - - - - - Right-clicking will bring up a menu for just about anything - in GNOME, and Evolution is no - exception. If you right-click on a folder, you'll have a - menu with the following options: - - View, to view a message. - Something else, for another purpose. - Something else, for another purpose. - . - - - - Context-Sensitive Help - - GNOME 2.0 supports context-sensitive help, which means you can - almost always get help on an item by right-clicking it. If - you're not sure what something is, or don't know what you can - do with it, choosing Help from the - right-click menu is a good way to find out. - - - - - Any time new information arrives in a folder, that folder label - is displayed as bold text. - - - To delete a folder, right-click it and select - Delete from the menu that pops up. - To change the order of folders, or put one inside another, use - drag-and-drop. To move individual - messages, appointments, and address cards between folders, you - can do the same thing: drag them where you want them, and - they'll go. - - - - The Menu Bar - - The menu bar's contents will always - provide all the possible actions for any given view of your - data. That means that, depending on the context, menu bar items - will change. If you're looking at your Inbox, most of the menu - items will relate to mail; some will relate to other components - of Evolution and some, especially - those in the File Menu will relate to the - application as a whole. This section describes those items that - cover the application as a whole; items specific to mailer are - discussed in the mail chapter, calendar items in the calendar - chapter, and so forth. - - - - - File Menu - - - Anything related to a file falls under this - menu: - - - New... — If you - want to create a new folder, calendar, - appointment, address card, or message, this is - where you should look. - - - - Go to Folder — - Select this item, then choose which folder you'd - like to view. - - - Exit — Quits the application. - - - - Print... — Opens the printing - dialog box so you can print items from the view pane of - Evolution. - - - - - - - Edit Menu - - Although it doesn't contain anything at first, - the Edit menu fills up with - useful editing tools when you're... editing. - - - - - Tools Menu - All of your assistants and configuration - tools go here. For the Inbox, that - means things like Mail - Configuration and the vFolder - Editor. For the - Calendar and the Contact - Manager - - - - Actions Menu - - This menu contains a list of actions you can perform on - the information you've stored with - Evolution. The contents vary - depending on the view, but for the - Inbox, it contains items like - Mark All Messages Read and - Expunge, to erase all the - messages you've marked for deletion. - - - - - Help Menu - - Select among these items to open the - Help Browser to the appropriate section. - - - - - - Once you've familiarized yourself with the main - window you can start doing things with it. We'lql - start with your email inbox: you've got a letter waiting for you - already. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- cgit v1.2.3