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3 id="start-conversation">
6 <link type="guide" xref="index#audio-video"/>
7 <link type="guide" xref="index#text-conv"/>
8 <link type="seealso" xref="add-contact"/>
9 <desc>General method to start a conversation.</desc>
10 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-14" 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>Start a conversation</title>
27 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, perform one of the following:
32 Choose <guiseq><gui>Chat</gui><gui>New conversation</gui></guiseq>.
37 Press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>N</key></keyseq>.
44 From the <gui>Account</gui> drop-down list, select the account you want to
45 use for the conversation.
48 This one is one of your accounts.
53 In the <gui>Contact ID</gui> text box, type the identifier of the contact you want to
54 have a conversation with.
57 You have to enter the identifier as it has been inserted when adding a new contact to
58 your contact list. If you are trying to start a conversation using one of your IRC
59 accounts or a SIP account, you have to enter the exact nickname or the
60 exact SIP address of the contact.
65 To start a text conversation, click on <gui>Chat</gui>; to start
66 an audio conversation, click on <gui>Call</gui>.