1 <page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
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 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-27" status="review"/>
12 <credit type="author">
13 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
14 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
18 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
20 <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
23 <title>Add a new account</title>
28 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, perform one of the following:
38 Choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Accounts</gui></guiseq>.
45 Click on the <gui style="button">Add</gui> button.
50 From the <gui>Add new</gui> drop-down list choose
51 the service you wish to add an account for, then click
52 on the <gui style="button">Create</gui> button.
57 Fill the required fields with your <em>user name</em> and <em>password</em>.
62 Click on <gui style="button">Connect</gui> to enable the new account.
65 <!-- TODO: check if it's a bug or what. In case, this part needs to
66 be removed or we must signal it as a bug! -->
70 If you do not click on <gui style="button">Connect</gui>, and you close
71 the dialog, the account will not be created, and it will be necessary to
75 If you do not click on <gui style="button">Connect</gui>, and you select
76 another account from the dialog, the data you inserted will be lost.
84 If you want to change the name that identifies the account in the <gui>Accounts</gui>
85 dialog, double-click on the name of the account in the box on the left of the dialog
86 and type the new name.