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- <preface id="introduction">
-<!-- =============Introduction ============================= -->
- <title>Introduction</title>
-
- <section id="what">
- <title> What is Evolution, and What Can It Do for Me?</title>
- <para>
- The idea of evolution as a process of improvement and
- development is a strong influence on the developers at Helix
- Code. We named our <glossterm>groupware</glossterm> suite
- "Evolution" because we knew that it would be able to survive
- in the wilderness of the software marketplace for one reason:
- it's better.
- </para>
- <para>
- <application>Evolution</application> is a suite of groupware
- applications within the GNOME desktop environment that you can
- use to send, receive, and organize email, manage address and
- other contact information, and maintain a calendar. It
- enables you to do those things on one or several computers,
- connected directly or over a network, for one person or for
- large groups. <application>Evolution</application> can handle
- almost all your communications tasks with the power and
- flexibility of the GNOME desktop environment.
- </para>
- <para>
- We built <application>Evolution</application> with three groups of
- people in mind: everyday users, system administrators, and
- developers.
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- For <emphasis>everyday users</emphasis>, we made
- <application>Evolution</application> easy to use without
- sacrificing power. We made the interface familiar and
- intuitive, but also allowed users to customize it to
- their liking. We made the setup and configuration as
- easy as possible. For any confusion, we wrote a
- comprehensive manual and help system.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- For <emphasis>administrators</emphasis>, we made sure
- <application>Evolution</application> met and and
- exceeded the standards set by currently available
- groupware products, and we developed support for most
- major network protocols so that it can integrate
- seamlessly with existing hardware and network
- environments. All of our efforts have made
- <application>Evolution</application> both easy to use
- and easy to support.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- For <emphasis>developers</emphasis>, we built in
- support for open standards and protocols to turn
- <application>Evolution</application> into an advanced
- development platform. From the simplest scripting to
- the most complex network and component programming,
- <application>Evolution</application> offers developers
- the ideal environment for cutting-edge application
- development.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- For all three groups, we did our best to ensure the
- safety of data.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- <para>
- In action, <application>Evolution</application> makes most
- daily tasks faster, because we built it to work with you
- instead of against you. For example, it takes only one or two
- clicks to enter an appointment or an address card sent to you
- by email, or to send email to a contact or appointment.
- <application>Evolution</application> makes displays faster and
- more efficient, so searches are faster and memory usage is
- much lower. People who get lots of mail will appreciate
- advanced features like <link
- linkend="usage-mail-organize-vFolders">vFolders</link>, which
- let you save searches as though they were ordinary mail
- folders.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="aboutbook">
- <title>About This Book</title>
-
- <!-- ************** FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH FOR DRAFT ONLY ************* -->
- <para>
- This is a DRAFT of the <application>Evolution</application>
- User's Guide. Please send comments on it to
- <email>aaron@helixcode.com</email>. Items that are known to
- need action are indicated as such, often with notation like
- (INSERT CONTENT HERE). If you have content to add, please
- contact me. This paragraph will be removed in later versions
- of the manual.
- </para>
- <!-- ************* END DRAFT ONLY PARAGRAPH ************** -->
-
- <para>
- This book is divided into three sections. The first section is
- a <link linkend="usage">guided tour</link>&mdash; it will
- explain how to use <application>Evolution</application>. If
- you are new to <application>Evolution</application> or to
- groupware in general, this is the section for you. The second
- section, covering <link linkend="config">configuration</link>,
- is targeted at advanced users and administrators. If you are
- a network administrator, you may find yourself referring to
- this section frequently. The third section is a quick <link
- linkend="devel">developer's guide</link>, for power users and
- hackers. If you want to add advanced scripting to
- <application>Evolution</application>, write your own
- embeddable components, or simply want to find out just how
- powerful <application>Evolution</application> can be, this is
- the section for you.
- </para>
- <para>
- Throughout the book, you'll find examples, tips and warnings
- to help you along. Most of them are decent, hardworking
- pieces of information, and genuinely try to be helpful. Some
- of the tips, entitled <emphasis>Bad Ideas</emphasis>,
- are, in fact, out to trick you. Please don't follow their
- advice, no matter how appealing it may sound.
- </para>
- <formalpara>
- <title>Typographical conventions</title>
- <para>
- Some kinds of words are marked off with special typography.
- It's listed below:
- <simplelist>
- <member><application>Applications</application></member>
- <member><command>Commands</command></member>
- <member><guilabel>Labels</guilabel>for menu items and buttons</member>
- <member>Other text treatments</member>
- <member>more info here</member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </formalpara>
- </section>
- </preface> \ No newline at end of file