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3 id="group-conversations">
6 <link type="guide" xref="index#text-conv"/>
8 Start or join a group conversation with your contacts.
10 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-02" status="stub"/>
11 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-17" status="draft"/>
12 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-17" status="review"/>
13 <credit type="author">
14 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
15 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
19 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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24 <title>Group conversations</title>
27 Group conversations permits you to have text conversations with more than one
28 contact at the same time.
31 To have a group conversation you need to have a registered account with either
32 Jabber or Google Talk, or a Salut account.
37 You can have a group conversation only with the contacts that are using the
38 same service as yours.
42 <section id="start-group-conv">
44 <title>Start a group conversation</title>
49 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose <guiseq><gui>Room</gui><gui>Join</gui></guiseq>.
54 From the <gui>Account</gui> drop-down list, select the account you want to use
55 for the group conversation.
60 In the <gui>Server</gui> text box, type the name of server in which the conversation
64 Leave it empty if it will be on the current server.
69 In the <gui>Room</gui> text box, type the name you want to give to the conversation.
73 This will be the name of the room you are going to have a conversation. This
74 name will be publicly available for other people to join. It is not possible
75 to create a private room.
81 To invite other contacts to join the group conversation, from the
82 <gui>Contact List</gui> window, select the contact you want to invite,
83 and perform one of the following:
88 Right-click on the contact, and select <gui>Invite to chatroom</gui>.
93 Choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Contact</gui><gui>Invite to chatroom</gui></guiseq>.
98 If you have more than one group conversation open, select the one you want to invite
106 <section id="join-group-conv">
108 <title>Join a group conversation</title>
113 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose
114 <guiseq><gui>Room</gui><gui>Join</gui></guiseq>.
119 Expand the <gui>Room List</gui> section to see all the existing rooms.
124 Double-click on the name of a room to join it.
130 It is not possible to join all existing rooms. Some of the rooms might require a
131 password, or might be invitation only. <app>Empathy</app> does not support these
135 <!-- TODO: find out where the password protected or invitation only icons are
136 and create a table. -->