id="group-conversations">
<info>
- <link type="guide" xref="index#advanced"/>
+ <link type="guide" xref="index#text-conv"/>
<desc>
- Start a group conversation with your contacts.
+ Start or join a group conversation with your contacts.
</desc>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-02" status="stub"/>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-17" status="draft"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-17" status="review"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Milo Casagrande</name>
<email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
To have a group conversation you need to have a registered account with either
Jabber or Google Talk, or a Salut account.
</p>
+
<note>
<p>
- You can have a group conversation with contacts that are using the same service
- as yours.
+ You can have a group conversation only with the contacts that are using the
+ same service as yours.
</p>
</note>
+
+ <section id="start-group-conv">
+
+ <title>Start a group conversation</title>
+
<steps>
<item>
<p>
for the group conversation.
</p>
</item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ In the <gui>Server</gui> text box, type the name of server in which the conversation
+ will be hosted.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Leave it empty if it will be on the current server.
+ </p>
+ </item>
<item>
<p>
In the <gui>Room</gui> text box, type the name you want to give to the conversation.
</item>
<item>
<p>
- Choose <guiseq><gui>Edit<gui><gui>Contact</gui><gui>Invite to chatroom</gui></guiseq>.
+ Choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Contact</gui><gui>Invite to chatroom</gui></guiseq>.
</p>
</item>
</list>
</p>
</item>
</steps>
+
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="join-group-conv">
+
+ <title>Join a group conversation</title>
+
+ <steps>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose
+ <guiseq><gui>Room</gui><gui>Join</gui></guiseq>.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Expand the <gui>Room List</gui> section to see all the existing rooms.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Double-click on the name of a room to join it.
+ </p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
+
+ <p>
+ It is not possible to join all existing rooms. Some of the rooms might require a
+ password, or might be invitation only. <app>Empathy</app> does not support these
+ kind of rooms.
+ </p>
+
+ <!-- TODO: find out where the password protected or invitation only icons are
+ and create a table. -->
+
+ </section>
</page>
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index"/>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-16" status="draft"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-17" status="review"/>
<desc>
Introduction to the <app>Empathy</app> instant messenger.
</desc>
<p>
<app>Empathy</app> is an instant messaging application for the GNOME Desktop.
- It supports text messaging, voice & video call even using SIP,
- file transfers and all the most used messaging systems such as MSN and Google Talk.
+ It supports text messaging, voice & video call, file transfers and all the
+ most used messaging systems such as MSN and Google Talk.
</p>
<p>
<app>Empathy</app> includes features that help you better collaborate while at work,
and that let you easily keep in touch with your friends.
</p>
<p>
- You can group all the conversations on a single window, or have multiple windows for
+ You can group all the conversations in a single window, or have multiple windows for
different kind of conversations; easily search through your previous conversations, and
share your desktop in just two clicks.
</p>
<p>
<media type="image" src="figures/empathy-main-window.png" mime="image/png">
- <app>Empathy</app> main window
+ <app>Empathy</app> main window.
</media>
</p>
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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+ type="topic"
+ id="prev-conv">
+
+ <info>
+ <link type="guide" xref="index#text-conv"/>
+ <desc>
+ Search your previous conversations.
+ </desc>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-17" status="stub"/>
+ <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>Previous conversations</title>
+
+</page>