<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
- type="topic"
- id="audio-call">
+ xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/"
+ xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
+ type="topic" style="task"
+ id="audio-call">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#audio-video"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="audio-video"/>
- <desc>
- Start an audio conversation with one of your contacts.
- </desc>
+ <desc>Call your contacts over the Internet.</desc>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-02" status="stub"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-07" status="review">
+ <!--
+ <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-09-04" status="done"/>
+ -->
+ </revision>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.3" date="2010-02-14" status="review"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.32" version="0.4" date="2010-09-09" status="review"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.8" version="0.4" date="2013-04-15" status="review"/>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
+ <email its:translate="no">milo@ubuntu.com</email>
+ </credit>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
+ <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
+ </credit>
+
+ <license>
+ <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+ </license>
</info>
-
+
<title>Start an audio conversation</title>
+ <p>You can call your contacts and have an audio conversation with them. This
+ features only works with certain types of accounts and it requires the other
+ person to have an application that supports audio calls.</p>
+
<steps>
<item>
<p>
- From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, perform one of the following:
+ Right-click on the contact that you want to call and select
+ <gui style="menuitem">Audio Call</gui>.
</p>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Click on the audio call icon next to the name of the contact that you
- want to have a conversation with.
- </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Right-click on the name of the contact you want to have a conversation with, and
- select <gui>Audio Call</gui>.
- </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Select the contact that you want to have a conversation with, and choose
- <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Contact</gui><gui>Audio Call</gui></guiseq>.
- </p>
- </item>
- </list>
</item>
<item>
<p>
- A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will
- see written, at the bottom of the window, <gui>Connected</gui> and the total
- conversation time.
+ A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will
+ see the total conversation time at the bottom of the window.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
- To close the conversation, click on <gui>Hang up</gui>.
+ To end the conversation, click the <gui style="button">hand up</gui>
+ button.
</p>
</item>
</steps>
+
+ <note style="tip">
+ <p>
+ To turn an audio conversation into a video conversation, choose
+ <guiseq><gui style="menu">Video</gui>
+ <gui style="menuitem">Video On</gui></guiseq>.
+ </p>
+ </note>
+
+ <section id="audio-meta-contact">
+ <title>Start an audio conversation with a meta-contact</title>
+ <steps>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, right-click on the meta-contact.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Select the contact you want to have the conversation, and from the menu
+ select <gui style="menuitem">Audio Call</gui>.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
+ <note style="tip">
+ <p>
+ To recognize if a contact is a <em>meta-contact</em>, move your mouse on
+ a contact in the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, and stop over it for a
+ second: a small pop-up message will appear showing the number of the
+ contacts that form the meta-contact.
+ </p>
+ </note>
+ </section>
</page>