<link type="seealso" xref="change-status"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="status-icons"/>
<desc>
- Set a personal message for your status.
+ Add, edit or delete personal messages for your status.
</desc>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-06-30" status="draft"/>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-10" status="review"/>
<name>Jim Campbell</name>
<email>jwcampbell@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
+ <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
+ </credit>
+ <license>
+ <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+ </license>
+<!--
<copyright>
<year>2009</year>
<name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
</copyright>
-
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
+-->
</info>
<title>Set a custom message</title>
<p>
Sometimes you may want to set a custom message for your status, for example to let
- people know that you will be unavailable for a certain period of time.
+ people know that you will be unavailable for a certain period of time.
</p>
<p>
It is possible to set a custom message based on the different statuses available.
<item>
<p>
From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click on the drop-down list at
- the top.
+ the top.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Select the status you want to add a custom message to. You have to select the one
- identified with the label <gui>Custom Message</gui>.
+ identified with the label <gui>Custom Message</gui>.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
Enter your custom message in the text box at the top of the window, and
- press <key>Enter</key> to set the message.
+ press <key>Enter</key> to set the message.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
If you want to set the custom message as a favorite, saving it in order to use it
- again, click on the little star on the right of the text box where you wrote your
- custom message.
+ again, click on the little heart on the right of the text box where you wrote your
+ custom message.
</p>
<p>
If you do not do it, the custom message will not be available the next time you
- use <app>Empathy</app>. It will be saved only for the current session.
+ use <app>Empathy</app>. It will be saved only for the current session.
</p>
</item>
</steps>
<section id="edit-custom">
- <title>Edit, remove and add a custom message</title>
+ <title>Edit and remove a custom message</title>
<steps>
<item>
<p>
From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click on the drop-down list at
- the top.
+ the top.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<item>
<p>
From the <gui>Saved Presets</gui> box, select the status message
- you want to edit and double-click on it.
+ you want to edit and double-click on it.
</p>
</item>
<item>
<item>
<p>
From the <gui>Saved Presets</gui> box, select the status message you want
- to remove.
+ to remove.
</p>
</item>
<item>
</item>
</steps>
</item>
- <item>
- <p>
- To add a new custom message, from the <gui>Add New Preset</gui> section:
- </p>
- <steps>
- <item>
- <p>
- Click on the drop-down list to select the status you want to set a custom
- message to.
- </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Click on the text box, and type the new custom message.
- </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Click on <gui>Add</gui> to add the new message to the presets ones.
- </p>
- </item>
- </steps>
- </item>
</list>
</item>
<item>
</item>
</steps>
- <note>
+ <note style="tip">
<p>
- When you edit or add a new custom message, it will not be set as the current
- status message. You will need to select it from the <gui>Contact List</gui> window.
+ When you edit a custom message, it will not be set as the current
+ status message. You will need to select it from the <gui>Contact List</gui> window.
</p>
</note>