1 <page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
6 <link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
7 <link type="seealso" xref="add-account"/>
8 <link type="seealso" xref="remove-account"/>
9 <desc>Import an existing account to <app>Empathy</app>.</desc>
10 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-22" status="draft"/>
11 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-22" status="review"/>
12 <credit type="author">
13 <name>Peter Haslam</name>
14 <email>peter.haslam@freenet.de</email>
16 <credit type="author">
17 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
18 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
22 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
24 <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
27 <title>Import an existing account</title>
32 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, do one of the following:
42 Choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Accounts</gui></guiseq>.
49 Click on <gui>Import Accounts...</gui>.
54 From the <gui>Import Accounts</gui> dialog, select the <gui>Import</gui>
55 check-box next to the accounts you want to import.
60 Click <gui>OK</gui> to import the accounts to <app>Empathy</app>.
65 To enable the new account, select the
66 <gui>Enabled</gui> check-box next to
67 the name of the account in the box on the left of the dialog.
74 If you want to change the name that identifies the account in the <gui>Accounts</gui>
75 dialog, double-click on the name of the account in the box on the left of the dialog
76 and type the new name.
82 At the moment <app>Empathy</app> can import accounts only from the instant
83 messaging program <app>Pidgin</app>. For more information about <app>Pidgin</app>,
84 see the <link href="http://www.pidgin.im/">Pidgin website</link>.