<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
- type="topic"
- id="change-status">
+ xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/"
+ type="topic" style="task"
+ id="change-status">
<info>
- <link type="guide" xref="index#talk"/>
+ <link type="guide" xref="index#accounts"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="status-icons"/>
<desc>
- Change your status, if you are going away from your computer for example.
+ Change your status to advertise your availability to your contacts.
</desc>
- <revision version="3.0" date="2009-06-14" status="draft"/>
-
+ <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-06-14" status="draft"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-10" status="review">
+ <!--
+ <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-09-01" status="done"/>
+ -->
+ </revision>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.3" date="2011-12-18" status="review">
+ <!--
+ <e:review by="milo@ubuntu.com" date="2011-12-18" status="done"/>
+ -->
+ </revision>
<credit type="author">
<name>Phil Bull</name>
<email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
+ <license>
+ <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+ </license>
+<!--
<copyright>
<year>2009</year>
<name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
</copyright>
-
- <license>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</license>
-
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
+-->
</info>
<title>Change your status</title>
+ <p>You can set your status to indicate your availability to your contacts.
+ <app>Empathy</app> allows you to select from a list of defined statuses.</p>
+
<steps>
<item>
<p>
- Click on the drop-down list at the top of the main window of <app>Empathy</app>.
+ Click on the drop-down list at the top of the <gui>Contact List</gui> window.
</p>
</item>
<item>
</item>
</steps>
- <p>
- For example, if you are busy and do not want to
- be disturbed, select <gui>Busy</gui>.
- </p>
+ <p>See <link xref="status-icons"/> for a list of the built-in statuses
+ and what they mean. You can also <link xref="set-custom-status">add
+ custom status messages</link> to provide more information about your
+ availability to your contacts.</p>
<note>
- <p>
- If you do not use your computer for a while, or if the screen saver is turned on, Empathy will
- automatically set your status to <gui>Away</gui>.
- </p>
+ <p>If you do not use your computer for a while, or if the screensaver is on,
+ the status will be automatically set to Away.</p>
</note>
</page>