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-<!--
- <!DOCTYPE Chapter PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook PNG Variant V1.1//EN">
--->
-<chapter id="usage-mainwindow">
-
- <title>The Main Window: Evolution Basics</title>
- <para>
- Start <application>Evolution</application> by selecting
- <menuchoice><guimenu>Main Panel Menu</guimenu>
- <guisubmenu>Applications</guisubmenu>
- <guimenuitem>Evolution</guimenuitem></menuchoice> or by typing
- <command>evolution</command> at the command line. The first time
- you run the program, it will create a directory called
- <filename>evolution</filename> in your home directory, where it
- will keep all your <application>Evolution</application>-related
- files.
- </para>
- <para>
- After <application>Evolution</application> starts
- up, you will see the <interface>main window</interface>, with the
- <interface>Inbox</interface> open. It should look a lot like the
- picture in <xref linkend="usage-mainwindow-fig">. On the left of
- the <interface>main window</interface> is the <interface>shortcut
- bar</interface>, with several buttons in it. Just underneath the
- title bar is a series of menus in the <interface>menu
- bar</interface>, and below that, the <interface>tool
- bar</interface> with buttons for different functions. The largest
- part of the <interface>main window</interface> is taken up by the
- actual <interface>Inbox</interface>, where messages are listed
- and displayed. If you're running the program for the first time,
- you'll have just one message: a welcome from Helix Code.
-
-
-<!-- ==============Figure=================================== -->
- <figure id="usage-mainwindow-fig">
- <title>Evolution Main Window and Inbox</title>
- <screenshot>
- <screeninfo>Evolution Main Window</screeninfo>
- <graphic fileref="fig/mainwindow-pic" format="png" srccredit="Kevin Breit">
- </graphic>
- </screenshot>
- </figure>
-<!-- ==============End of Figure=================================== -->
-</para>
-
- <para>
- <note>
- <title>The Way Evolution Looks</title>
- <para>
- The appearance of both <application>Evolution</application>
- and <application>GNOME</application> is very easy to
- customize, so your screen might not look like this picture.
- You might decide to have <application>Evolution</application>
- start with the calendar and a folder bar, or with the contact
- manager occupying the entire window.
- </para>
- </note>
- </para>
-
- <sect1 id="usage-mainwindow-shortcutbar">
- <title>The Shortcut Bar</title>
- <para>
- <application>Evolution</application>'s most important job is
- to give you access to your information and help you use it
- quickly. One way it does that is through the
- <interface>shortcut bar</interface>, the column on the left
- hand side of the main window. The large buttons with names
- like <guilabel>Inbox</guilabel> and
- <guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> are the shortcuts, and you can
- select different groups of shortcuts by clicking the
- rectangular group buttons.
- </para>
- <para>
- The shortcut group buttons are <guibutton>Evolution
- Shortcuts</guibutton> and <guibutton>Internet
- Directories</guibutton>. When you click on them, they'll slide
- up and down to give you access to different sorts of shortcuts.
- When you first start <application>Evolution</application>, you
- are looking at the <guilabel>Evolution Shortcuts</guilabel>
- category. If you click <guilabel>Internet
- Directories</guilabel>, it will slide up and you'll see buttons
- for the <guilabel>Bigfoot</guilabel> and
- <guilabel>Netcenter</guilabel> directories, as well as any
- others you or your system administrator might have added. You
- can add more groups by right-clicking on the background of the
- shortcut bar and selecting <guimenuitem>Menu
- Group</guimenuitem>. Internet directories behave a lot like
- the local contact manager, which is covered in <xref
- linkend="usage-contact">.
- </para>
- <para>
- Take a look at the <guilabel>Evolution Shortcuts</guilabel>
- again. The shortcut buttons in that category are:
-
- <variablelist>
-
-<!-- NOT IMPLEMENTED!
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guibutton>Today:</guibutton></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This will bring up a summary of any new messages you've
- received, along with the tasks and appointments you have
- lined up for today.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
--->
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guibutton>Inbox:</guibutton></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The Inbox will show you all of your email. Your Inbox
- is also where you can access Evolution's tools to
- filter, sort, organize, and search your mail.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guibutton>Calendar:</guibutton></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The Calendar can store your appointments and To do lists
- for you. Connected to a network, you can use it to keep
- a group of people on schedule and up to date.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><guibutton>Contacts:</guibutton></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The Contact Manager holds your addresses, phone numbers,
- and contact information. Like calendar information,
- contact data can be synchronized with hand-held devices
- and shared over a network.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
-<!-- NOT IMPLEMENTED YET
- <varlistentry>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The <guibutton>Tasks:</guibutton> tool combines a "to
- do" list with reminders to help you keep track of
- daily events.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guibutton>Notes:</guibutton></term>
- <listitem>
- <para> The note pad is your catch-all tool: use it to take
- messages from phone conversations, keep small things
- organized, write <glossterm linkend="haiku">haiku</glossterm>, or whatever
- you like. This feature is not yet implemented, but will be
- soon. See <xref linkend="usage-notes"> for more
- information.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
--->
-
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- <para>
- If you don't like the shortcut bar, you can use the menu bar, or
- keyboard shortcuts, also called <glossterm linkend="hot-key">hot keys</glossterm>.
- They're shown next to their equivalent menu items in the menu
- bar. You can also set your own hot keys for functions that don't
- have any; this is covered in <xref linkend="config">. If you're
- using the keyboard shortcuts you may also want to hide the
- <interface>shortcut bar</interface> by selecting <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>View</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Show Shortcut
- Bar</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>.
- </para>
-
- <tip>
- <title>Shortcut Bar Tricks</title>
- <para>
- To remove a shortcut from the shortcut bar, right-click on it
- and select <guimenuitem>Remove</guimenuitem>. To add one,
- select <menuchoice> <guimenu>File</guimenu>
- <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu> <guimenuitem>Evolution Bar
- Shortcut</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>. </para>
- <para>
- To change the way the shortcut bar looks, right-click in an
- empty space on the shortcut bar. From the menu that appears,
- you can select icon sizes.
- </para>
- </tip>
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1 id="usage-mainwindow-folderbar">
- <title>The Folder Bar</title>
- <para>
- The <interface>folder bar</interface> is a more comprehensive
- way to view the information you've stored with
- <application>Evolution</application>. It displays all your
- appointments, address cards, and email in a tree that's a lot
- like a <glossterm linkend="filetree">file
- tree</glossterm>&mdash; it starts small at the top, and branches
- downwards. On most computers, there will be three folders at the
- base. At the top are your <guilabel>vFolders</guilabel>, or
- virtual folders, discussed in <xref
- linkend="usage-mail-organize-vfolders">. After that come any
- <glossterm linkend="imap">IMAP</glossterm> mail folders you
- might have available to you over your network. The next folder
- is called <guilabel>External Directories</guilabel>, and holds
- <glossterm linkend="ldap">LDAP</glossterm> contact directories
- stored on a network. The most important one is probably
- <guilabel>Local</guilabel>, which you can use to access all the
- data that's stored on your computer. If you click on the plus
- sign plus sign next to the <guilabel>Local</guilabel> folder,
- you'll see the contents:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Calendar</guilabel>, for appointments and
- event listings.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Contacts</guilabel>, for address cards.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Directories</guilabel>, for Internet contact directories.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Inbox</guilabel>, for incoming mail.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <guilabel>Outbox</guilabel>, which is for drafts of
- messages and mail that's already been sent.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </para>
- <tip id="foldertips">
- <title>Navigating without the Folder Bar</title>
- <para>
- You don't need the folder bar or the shortcut bar to move
- around the main window. You can use <keycap>Tab</keycap> to
- switch from one part of the window to another, and the folder
- menu on the right side of the window just below the toolbar
- to move about the folder tree.
- </para>
- </tip>
-
- <para>
- To create a new folder, select <menuchoice>
- <guimenu>File</guimenu> <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu>
- <guimenuitem>Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. You'll be asked where you want to
- put it, and what kind of folder it should be. You can choose
- from three types: <guilabel>Mail</guilabel>, for storing mail,
- <guilabel>Calendar</guilabel> for storing calendars, and
- <guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> for storing contacts.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <title>Folders Have Limits</title>
- <para>
- You can always place a folder inside other folders,
- regardless of folder type. However, calendars,
- contacts, and mail can't go into the same
- folder. Calendars have to go in calendar folders, mail
- in mail folders, and contacts in contact folders.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- Right-clicking will bring up a menu for just about anything
- in GNOME, and <application>Evolution</application> is no
- exception. If you right-click on a folder, you'll have a
- menu with the following options:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para><guimenuitem>View</guimenuitem>, to view a message.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><guimenuitem>Something else</guimenuitem>, for another purpose. </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><guimenuitem>Something else</guimenuitem>, for another purpose. </para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>.
- </para>
-
- <tip>
- <title>Context-Sensitive Help</title>
- <para>
- GNOME 2.0 will support context-sensitive help, which means you
- can almost always get help on an item by right-clicking it.
- If you're not sure what something is, or don't know what you
- can do with it, choosing <guimenuitem>Help</guimenuitem> from
- the right-click menu is a good way to find out.
- </para>
- </tip>
-
- <para>
- Any time new information arrives in a folder, that folder label
- is displayed in bold text.
- </para>
- <para>
- To delete a folder, right-click it and select
- <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem> from the menu that pops up.
- To change the order of folders, or put one inside another, use
- drag-and-drop. To move individual
- messages, appointments, and address cards between folders, you
- can do the same thing: drag them where you want them, and
- they'll go.
- </para>
- </sect1>
- <sect1 id="usage-mainwindow-menubar">
- <title>The Menu Bar</title>
- <para>
- The <interface>menu bar</interface>'s contents will always
- provide all the possible actions for any given view of your
- data. That means that, depending on the context, menu bar items
- will change. If you're looking at your Inbox, most of the menu
- items will relate to mail; some will relate to other components
- of <application>Evolution</application> and some, especially
- those in the <guimenu>File Menu</guimenu> will relate to the
- application as a whole. The contents of the menu bar are
- described in <xref linkend="menuref">.
- </para>
- <para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guimenu>File</guimenu> Menu</term>
-
- <listitem><para>
- Anything even related to a file or to the operations
- of the application generally falls under this
- menu: creating things, saving them to disk,
- printing them, and quitting the program itself.
-
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> Menu </term>
- <listitem><para>
- Although it doesn't contain anything at first,
- the <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu fills up with
- useful tools that help you edit text and move it around.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guimenu>View</guimenu> Menu </term>
- <listitem><para>
- This menu lets you decide how <application>Evolution</application>
- should look. Some of the features control the appearance of
- <application>Evolution</application> as a whole, and others
- the way a particular kind of information appears.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> Menu </term>
- <listitem><para> Tools for configuring, changing, and
- setting up go here. For mail, that means things like
- <guimenuitem>Mail Configuration</guimenuitem> and the
- <guimenuitem>vFolder Editor</guimenuitem>. For the
- <interface>Calendar</interface> and the <interface>Contact
- Manager</interface>, it's color, network, and layout
- configuration. </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term> <guimenu>Help</guimenu> Menu</term>
- <listitem><para>
- Select among these items to open the
- <application>Help Browser</application>
- and read the <application>Evolution</application> manual.
- </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- <para>
- Other menus, like <guilabel>Folder</guilabel>,
- <guilabel>Message</guilabel>, and <guilabel>Actions</guilabel>,
- appear only occasionally. <guilabel>Message</guilabel> and
- <guilabel>Folder</guilabel>, for example, have commands that only
- relate to email, so they're only available when you're looking at
- email.
- </para>
- <para>
- Once you've familiarized yourself with the <interface>main
- window</interface> you can start doing things with it. We'll
- start with your email inbox, since you've got a letter waiting
- for you already.
- </para>
- </sect1>
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