<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
- type="topic"
- id="video-call">
+ xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/"
+ type="topic" style="task"
+ id="video-call">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#audio-video"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="audio-video"/>
+ <link type="seealso" xref="audio-call"/>
<desc>
Start a video conversation with one of your contacts.
</desc>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-02" status="stub"/>
- <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-14" status="review"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-14" 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="3.2" version="0.4" date="2011-12-18" status="review"/>
<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"/>
+ <license>
+ <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+ </license>
</info>
<title>Start a video conversation</title>
+ <p>If you have a webcam, you can call your contacts and have a video
+ conversation with them. This feature only works with certain types of
+ accounts, and it requires the other person to have an application that
+ supports video calls.</p>
+
<steps>
<item>
- <p>
- From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, perform one of the following:
+ <p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click the
+ <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/camera-web.png">video call</media>
+ icon next to the name of the contact you wish to call and choose <gui style="menuitem">Video Call</gui>.
</p>
- <list>
- <item>
- <p>
- Select the contact you want to have a conversation with, and click
- on the video call icon next to their name.
- </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>
- Right-click on the name of the contact you want to have a conversation with, and
- choose <gui>Video Call</gui>.
- </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.
- </p>
+ <p>A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will
+ see <gui>Connected</gui> at the bottom of the window, along with the
+ total conversation time.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>
- To close the conversation, click on <gui>Hang up</gui>.
+ To end the conversation, click on <gui style="button">Hang up</gui>.
</p>
</item>
</steps>
<note style="tip">
<p>
- To turn a video conversation into an audio one, from the call window deselect
- <guiseq><gui>Call</gui><gui>Send video</gui></guiseq>,
- or click on the video call icon.
+ To turn a video conversation into an audio conversation, choose
+ <guiseq><gui style="menu">Video</gui><gui style="menuitem">Video Off</gui></guiseq>.
</p>
</note>
-
-
-
+ <section id="video-meta-contact">
+ <title>Start a video 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">Video 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>