type="topic"
id="send-file">
-<info>
- <link type="guide" xref="index#talk"/>
- <desc>Send a file from your computer to one of your contacts.</desc>
- <revision version="3.0" date="2009-06-14" status="stub"/>
-
- <credit type="author">
- <name>Phil Bull</name>
- <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
- </credit>
- <copyright>
- <year>2009</year>
- <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
- </copyright>
-
- <license>Creative Commons Share Alike</license>
-
- <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
-</info>
-
-<title>Send a file to someone</title>
-
-<p>
-In the main <app>Empathy</app> window, right-click the contact that you want
-to send a file to and click <gui>Send file</gui>.
-</p>
-<p>
-Select the file that you want to send and click <gui>Send</gui>. The <app>File
-Transfers</app> window will appear. Wait for your contact to accept the file
-transfer, or press <gui>Stop</gui> to stop the transfer from happening.
-</p>
-<p>
-If your contact accepts the file transfer, you can watch the progress of the
-transfer and see the estimated amount of time remaining before it is complete.
-If they do not accept it, the status of the transfer will change to <gui>File
-transfer cancelled</gui> and the file will not be sent.
-</p>
-<p>
-Once a transfer is finished, you can just close the <app>File Transfers</app>
-window. If you have lots of finished transfers listed in the window, click
-<gui>Clear</gui> to clear the list. This will only remove the files from the
-list and will not delete them from your computer.
-</p>
-
-<note>
+ <info>
+ <link type="guide" xref="index#advanced"/>
+ <desc>Send a file from your computer to one of your contacts.</desc>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-06-14" status="draft"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-07-21" status="draft"/>
+
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Phil Bull</name>
+ <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
+ </credit>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
+ <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
+ </credit>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2009</year>
+ <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
+ </copyright>
+
+ <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
+ </info>
+
+ <title>Send files</title>
+
+ <steps>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, perform one of the following:
+ </p>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Right-click on the contact you want to send a file, and select <gui>Send file</gui>.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Click on the contact you want to send a file, and choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui>
+ <gui>Contact</gui><gui>Send file</gui></guiseq>.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Select the file to send, and click on <gui>Send</gui>.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ The <gui>File Transfers</gui> window will appear. Wait for your contact to accept the
+ file transfer, or click <gui>Stop</gui> to halt the transfer.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
+
+ <note>
+ <p>
+ It is possible to send files only using the following services: <em>Jabber</em>,
+ <em>Google Talk</em> and <em>Salut</em>.
+ </p>
+ </note>
+
+ <p>
+ If your contact accepts the file transfer, you can watch the progress of the
+ transfer and see the estimated amount of time remaining before it is complete.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If they do not accept it, the status of the transfer will change to <gui>File
+ transfer cancelled</gui>, and the file will not be sent.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Once a transfer is finished, you can close the <gui>File Transfers</gui>
+ window. If you have multiple finished transfers listed in the window, click on
+ <gui>Clear</gui> to empty the list. This will only remove the files from the
+ list and will not delete them from your computer.
+ </p>
+
+ <note>
<p>
- You must be online to send a file to someone.
+ In order to send a file to someone, you need to be connected to the Internet, or to
+ a local area network.
</p>
-</note>
+ </note>
</page>
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