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diff --git a/doc/C/config-prefs.sgml b/doc/C/config-prefs.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 65ea822cfe..0000000000 --- a/doc/C/config-prefs.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,496 +0,0 @@ - - -<chapter id="config-prefs"> - -<!--this chapter needs a LOT of work. structurally it needs for the -mail and other sections to be similar. it needs content in the -Calendar section and the Contact section. Calendar prefs functions -documentation-ready, although subject to substantial change. Contact -functions are not yet available for doc'ing. . aaron, june 5. 7 am. ---> - - <title>Advanced Configuration</title> - <para> - Perhaps your mail server has changed names. Perhaps you've - grown tired of a certain layout for your appointments. - Whatever the reason, you want to change your - <application>Evolution</application> settings. This chapter - will tell you how to do just that. - </para> - - <sect1 id="config-prefs-mail"> - <title>Mail Settings</title> - <para> - To change your mail settings, first go to your - <interface>Inbox</interface>. Then select <guimenuitem>Mail - Settings</guimenuitem> from the <guimenu>Tools</guimenu> menu. - This will open the <interface>mail preferences - window</interface>, illustrated in <xref - linkend="config-prefs-mail-fig">. Mail Preferences are - seperated into several categories: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Identity</guilabel>, which allows you to set - your name, email address, and other information. The - default values are the ones found on your system account. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Sources</guilabel>, which allows you to specify - your mail receiving server and protocols. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Transports</guilabel>, which allows you to - specify how you will send mail. - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - -<!-- THE FOLLOWING MAY BE REINSTATED: - as well as attachment - and HTML handling, forwarding behavior, filters, and - other <application>Evolution</application> behaviors - specific to email. The default behaviors are those - approved by Jamie Zawinski. ---> - - - </para> - - <!-- ==============Figure===================== --> - <figure id="config-prefs-mail-fig"> - <title>Preferences Dialog</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>Setting mail preferences</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/config-mail" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> - <!-- ==============End of Figure================--> - - - <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-identity"> - <title>Identity Settings</title> - <para> - If you have only one email address, or use automatic - forwarding to funnel multiple addresses to one account, then - you will only need to configure one identity. You may, - however, want more that one. To alter an identity, click on - it in the <guilabel>Identity</guilabel> tab of the - <interface>Preferences</interface> window, and then click - <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>. To add a new identity, simply - click <guibutton>Add</guibutton>. - </para> - - <para> - In either case, you'll be presented with a dialog box with - four fields: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Full Name:</guilabel> by default, this is the - same name as the full name described in your user - account on your computer. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Email address:</guilabel> Enter your email - address in this space. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Organization:</guilabel> If you send email as - a representative of a company or other organization, - enter its name here. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Signature file:</guilabel> You may choose a - small text file to be appended to every message that you - send. Typically, signature files include address or - other contact information, or a favorite quotation. - They should not be more than three lines long. - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-network"> - <title>Network Settings</title> - <para> - In order to do much of anything with - <application>Evolution</application>, you need to connect to - your network. To do that, you'll need to know your user name - and password, what sort of mail sending and receiving - protocols your network uses, and the names of the servers - you'll be using. If you're switching from another groupware - or email progam, you can almost certainly use the same - settings as you did with that program. Select the - <guibutton>Sources</guibutton> tab in the - <interface>Preferences</interface> window to tell - <application>Evolution</application> where you want to get - your mail, and click <guibutton>Transports</guibutton> to - determine how you want to send your mail. - </para> - - <sect3 id="config-prefs-network-sources"> - <title>Mail Sources</title> - <para> - The <interface>Mail Sources</interface> tab allows you to - edit, add, or delete methods of retreiving mail from - servers. Clicking on <guibutton>Add</guibutton> or - <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> will bring up a dialog box to - offer you the following options: - <itemizedlist> - - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Mail source type:</guilabel>At this point, you - can only select from POP or Unix-style mbox files, but - additional types will be supported in the future. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Server:</guilabel>Enter the name of your mail - server in this field, eg: mail.mycompany.com - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Username:</guilabel>Enter your user name here. - Eva Lucy Ann Tester's user name is eltester. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Authentication:</guilabel> Your system - administrator will know which type of authentication - your system requires. - <application>Evolution</application> can also detect - what sorts of authentication are available once it knows - where to find the server. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Test these values before continuing</guilabel> - If this box is checked, - <application>Evolution</application> will attempt to - make sure that all the other entries in the dialog box - are correct. - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </sect3> - <sect3 id="config-prefs-mail-network-transports"> - <title>Transports</title> - <para> - The <interface>Transports</interface> tab lets you set how - you will send mail. As of this writing, you have two - choices: <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, which uses a remote - mail server, and <guilabel>sendmail</guilabel>, - which uses the <application>sendmail</application> program - on your local system. - </para> - <para> - If you choose <guilabel>SMTP</guilabel>, you will need - to know the name of your mail server. Your system - administrator or ISP has probably included that - information on the piece of paper you lost about five - minutes ago. <application>Evolution</application> can - attempt to determine if you have entered the right - server name. To have it do so, - check the box labelled <guilabel>Test these values before - continuing</guilabel> before you click - <guibutton>OK</guibutton>. - </para> - </sect3> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="config-prefs-mail-other"> - <title>Other Mail Preferences</title> - <para> - Currently, there is only one option that falls into this - category: <guilabel>Send messages in HTML format</guilabel>. - If you check this box, you will send messages as HTML. If - you leave it unchecked, your messages will be sent without - HTML formatting. See <xref - linkend="usage-mail-getnsend-send-html"> for more - information about HTML mail. - </para> - </sect2> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="config-prefs-contact"> - <title>Managing the Contact Manager</title> - <para> - To set the behavior of your Contact Manager, click on the - <guibutton>Contact Manager</guibutton> tab in the - <interface>Preferences</interface> window. - </para> - <para> - You can set the following options: <!--insert variable list - here--> - </para> - </sect1> - - <sect1 id="config-prefs-cal"> - <title>Configuring the Calendar</title> - <para> - This section discusses calendar-specific preferences. While - looking at your calendar, select - <guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem> from the - <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu. This will open up the - <interface>Preferences</interface> window. It contains four - tabs: <guilabel>Time display</guilabel>, - <guilabel>Colors</guilabel>, <guilabel>To Do List</guilabel> - and <guilabel>Alarms</guilabel>. The <interface>calendar - preferences window</interface> is illustrated in <xref - linkend="config-prefs-cal-fig">. - - <!-- ==============Figure===================== --> - <figure id="config-prefs-cal-fig"> - <title>Calendar Preferences Dialog</title> - <screenshot> - <screeninfo>If this worked on my job as well as my calendar...</screeninfo> - <graphic fileref="fig/config-cal" format="png" srccredit="Aaron Weber"> - </graphic> - </screenshot> - </figure> - <!-- ==============End of Figure================--> - </para> - - <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-time"> - <title>Time Display Settings</title> - <para> - The first tab, <interface>Time display tab</interface>, lets - you set the following: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term>Time format</term> - <listitem> - <para>You may choose between twelve-hour (AM/PM) and - twenty-four hour time formats here by clicking the - appropriate radio button. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term>Weeks start on</term> - <listitem> - <para>You can set weeks to start on Sunday or on Monday.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term>Day range</term> - <listitem> - <para> - When does your work day start, and when does it end? - In the day and week views, - <application>Evolution</application> displays all the - hours in the range you select here, even if there are - no appointments for those times. Of course, if you - set your days to end before they begin, you may be in - for a little confusion. - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-color"> - <title>Calendar Colors</title> - <para> - The <interface>colors tab</interface> allows you to decide - what color your calendar will be. The tab consists of a - sample calendar on the right and a list of ten items that can - be colored in different ways. If you click on the color - button to the right of each item, you will bring up a - color-selector window where you can choose to alter that - color. By clicking <guibutton>OK</guibutton> in the color - selection dialog, you can see the results of the color on the - sample calendar. - </para> - <para>The display elements whose color you can set are: - - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Outline:</guilabel> The lines between days - and at the top of the display. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> <guilabel>Headings:</guilabel> Text color for day - and month names and other headings. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> <guilabel>Empty days:</guilabel> This is the - background color for any time slots in which you have no appointments. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Appointments:</guilabel> This is the - background color for any time slots in which you have appointments. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> <guilabel>Highlighted day:</guilabel> The - background color for a selected time slot. - </para> - </listitem> - - - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Day numbers:</guilabel> Text color for date numbers. - </para> - </listitem> - - - <listitem> - <para> - <guilabel>Current day's number:</guilabel> Text color for today's date. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is not yet - due:</guilabel> Text color for To-Do list items that are - not yet due. (Or maybe background color? find out!) - </para> - </listitem> - - - <listitem> - <para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is due today:</guilabel> - Text color for today's tasks. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> <guilabel>To-Do item that is overdue:</guilabel> - Text color for overdue tasks. - </para> - </listitem> - - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-todo"> - <title>To Do list settings</title> - <para> - You can choose what information the To Do list displays and the - way it is displayed. The two areas of the <interface>To Do - List</interface> tab offer several options each: - <variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term>Show on To Do List</term> - <listitem> - <para> - This box contains three items. If you select the - check boxes next to them, that information will appear - in the To Do list for each task it contains: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Due Date</guilabel></para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Time Until Due</guilabel></para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Priority</guilabel></para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - <varlistentry> - <term>Style Options</term> - <listitem> - <para> - Select among the following checkboxes to determine - how your To Do list will look: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Highlight overdue items</guilabel></para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Highlight items due today</guilabel></para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Highlight not yet due items</guilabel></para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> - </variablelist> - </para> - </sect2> - - <sect2 id="config-prefs-cal-alarms"> - <title>Alarms settings</title> - <para> - The <interface>alarms tab</interface> enables you to select from three boxes: - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Beep on display alarms</guilabel>: select - this box to have <application>Evolution</application> beep - at you for any alarms you have set. If you leave this box - unchecked, <application>Evolution</application> will only - alert you to events by opening a dialog box. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Audio alarms timeout after: </guilabel> - Select this button to have the beeping stop automatically - after a certain number of seconds. </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Enable snoozing for:</guilabel> If you - would like to have the option to tell - <application>Evolution</application> to repeat an alarm in - a few minutes, select this button and decide how long - you'd like it to wait. - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </sect2> - - - </sect1> - <sect1 id="config-prefs-general"> - <title>General Preferences</title> - <para> - Overall Evolution prefs-- whatever else doesn't fit. - </para> - </sect1> -</chapter> - - - - - - |