
2001-07-11 Kevin Breit <battery841@mediaone.net> * C/usage-calendar.sgml: More edits. * C/usage-contact.sgml: Sick amounts of changes too! * C/usage-mail-org.sgml: Heavy editing...touched almost everything. * C/usage-exec-summary.sgml: Minor change. There was only one change for this chapter, cuz I'm such a 'godly' writer...yeah. svn path=/trunk/; revision=11018
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<chapter id="usage-exec-summary">
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<title>My Evolution</title>
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<para>
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My Evolution is designed to show you a
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summary of important information: the appointments for a given
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day, important email, and so forth. To see your My Evolution,
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click on the <guibutton>My Evolution</guibutton>
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button in the shortcut bar, or select the
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<guilabel>My Evolution</guilabel> folder in the folder
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bar.
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</para>
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<sect1 id="exec-intro">
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<title>Introducing My Evolution</title>
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<para>
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The first thing you'll want to do with My Evolution
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is add a service. Go to
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<menuchoice>
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<guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>My Evolution Settings</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice>
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then select one of the available
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services. Services may vary depending upon your system, but
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most installations will have at least the following options:
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Mail</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Display amount of unread email in your selected folders.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>RDF Summary</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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News headlines from sites that allow this
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feature. The default
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is news about the GNOME project from <ulink
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url="www.gnome.org/gnome-news/">gnotices</ulink>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Weather</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Shows you the current weather for the cities of your choice.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Schedule</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Lets you see the events for the day.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</para>
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<para>
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<application>Evolution</application> comes with ... enabled by
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default.
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</para>
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<sect2 id="new-components">
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<title>Adding New Components</title>
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<para>
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To add a new service:
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<orderedlist numeration="arabic">
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Choose
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<menuchoice>
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<guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>My Evolution Settings</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice>
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from the menubar.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Select the service you wish to add by clicking on the respective
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tab.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Choose <guibutton>OK</guibutton> when finished configuring the
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item.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="delete-components">
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<title>Deleting Components</title>
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<para>
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There are possibly some components which you'd prefer not too
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view in your My Evolution.
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To remove a component:
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<orderedlist numeration="arabic">
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Choose
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<menuchoice>
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<guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>My Evolution Settings</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice>
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from the menubar.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Click the <guilabel>Enable</guilabel> button in the component you
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would like to disable.
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<!-- This is incorrect. I am going to ask Iain if he could throw
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in an Enable button -->
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="modifying-components">
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<title>Modifying Components</title>
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<para>
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Chances are, the components that you setup aren't going to be setup for
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your needs. For instance, you may choose that you want to use different
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city choices than the default settings.
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<application>Evolution</application> lets you configure all the
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components in My Evolution.
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</para>
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<sect3 id="modifying-components-mail">
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<title>Customizing My Evolution Mail Summary</title>
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<para>
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To modify mail:
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<orderedlist numeration="arabic">
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Choose
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<menuchoice>
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<guimenu>Tools</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>My Evolution Settings</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice>
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from the menubar.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Click the <guilabel>Mail</guilabel> tab at the top of the
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window.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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</para>
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<para>
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The <guilabel>Mail</guilabel> service window is broken up into two
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sections. The left section is where your mail folders are listed.
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The right section shows which folders are displayed.
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</para>
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<para>
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To add a folder to the summary, click on a folder in the
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<guilabel>All folders</guilabel> section and click the
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<guibutton>Add</guibutton> button.
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</para>
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<para>
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To remove a folder from the service, click on the folder in the
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<guilabel>Display folders</guilabel> section and click the
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<guibutton>Remove</guibutton> button.
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</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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