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6 <link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
7 <link type="seealso" xref="remove-account"/>
8 <desc>Add a new account to <app>Empathy</app>.</desc>
9 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-06-24" status="draft"/>
10 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-10" status="review"/>
11 <credit type="author">
12 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
13 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
17 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
19 <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
22 <title>Add a new account</title>
27 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, perform one of the following:
37 Choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Accounts</gui></guiseq>.
44 If it is the first time you launch <app>Empathy</app>:
49 From the <gui>Type</gui> drop-down list choose
50 the service you wish to add an account for, then click
51 on the <gui>Create</gui> button.
61 Click on the <gui>Add</gui> button.
66 From the <gui>Type</gui> drop-down list choose
67 the service you wish to add an account for, then click
68 on the <gui>Create</gui> button.
75 Fill the required fields with your <em>user
76 name</em> and <em>password</em>.
81 To enable the new account, select the
82 <gui>Enabled</gui> check-box next to
83 the name of the account in the box on the left of the dialog.
89 If you want to change the name that identifies the account in the <gui>Accounts</gui>
90 dialog, double-click on the name of the account in the box on the left of the dialog
91 and type the new name.