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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<chapter>
+ <title id="chap_starting">Dialogs and views</title>
+
+ <para>
+ The appearance of the Sylpheed windows is controlled by
+ a Gtk+ theme (as Sylpheed is based on the Gtk+ toolkit).
+ Read the Gtk+ or your distribution documentation to find
+ how to change the Gtk+ theme.
+ </para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Folder view</title>
+
+ <para>
+ The folder view shows you all the mail folders that you have created,
+ in a tree-like structure. If you want to see the headers of the messages
+ in a specific folder, just click the name of the folder once, and in the
+ summary view (2) you can see the messages in the selected mail folder.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When you see a + sign in front of a folder name, that means the folder
+ branch of that part of the tree is 'collapsed'. You can expand that
+ part by clicking the + sign. In that same manner you can also collapse
+ the - sign in front of an expanded branch of the folder tree.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The folder pane can be resized be dragging (left mouse button down)
+ the handle found on the left of the folder view.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The folder window can be detached from the main Sylpheed window
+ by selecting the menu action: <tt>View -> Separate folder tree</tt>.
+ When exiting the current state of the folder window (attached or
+ detached) is saved to be restored when re-starting Sylpheed.
+ To re-attach the folder window, de-select the menu entry.
+ </para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Special folders</title>
+
+ <para>
+ Draft: here you store messages that you want to send out more often,
+ or you want to work on some more. Using the 'reedit' option from the
+ message menu, you can edit the message further.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Trash: in here all your deleted messages go. Depending on the common
+ preferences setting, this box is or is not emptied when you end Sylpheed.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Sent: in here are saved the messages you send (enabled by a
+ common preference setting and the folder can be changed by an account
+ preference setting).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Queue: this folder contains the composed messaged waiting to
+ be sent (with Sylpheed message sending can be delayed).
+ </para>
+
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Summary view</title>
+
+ <para>
+ The summary pane can show you many things. You can select what you
+ want to see from the Summary menu, selecting the option
+ Set display item. A list of all options is:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>Mark: shows if the message is marked.</listitem>
+ <listitem>Unread: shows if the message is read or not</listitem>
+ <listitem>MIME: shows MIME attachments</listitem>
+ <listitem>Number: shows the MH number of the message</listitem>
+ <listitem>Size: the size of the entire message including attachments</listitem>
+ <listitem>Date: the date of sending by the sender</listitem>
+ <listitem>From: who sent the message</listitem>
+ <listitem>Subject: what the message is about</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ <para>
+ You can sort the summary view in many ways, by clicking the button
+ that is above the column. Click once to sort going up (a-z), click
+ once more to sort going down (z-a).
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ If you think the size of a column is not right, you can adjust that
+ by placing the mouse cursor next to the button of the column you
+ want to adjust, press mousebutton1 (left button) and drag the
+ column to the width you want it to have.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Select a message by clicking on it with the mouse. Once the summary
+ pane has the focus of the program, you can also move up and down
+ in the list through the cursor keys, or pressing "p"(revious) and
+ "n"(ext) as in Pine.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Message view</title>
+
+ <para>
+ In the message view you can read the message that you selected in
+ the summary pane. If you entered the summary pane without selecting
+ a message, the message view will be empty. At the top of the
+ message view some info is presented about the message you are
+ reading, as well as some statistics on the selected folder.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ You can scroll up and down in the message by using the arrow keys
+ (after clicking inside the message), or by using the scrollbar.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The size of the message and summary views can be adjusted by dragging
+ (with the left mouse button down) the handle that appears between
+ the two panes.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The small arrow located just below the summary pane scrollbar can
+ be used to detach the message view. When clicked, the summary view
+ is extended down to the bottom of the Sylpheed window, and the messages
+ are displayed is a separate window (when you double click them in the
+ summary pane). This state is not saved on exit, and the message window
+ can be restored below the summary one by clicking again the small arrow.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ When the current message contains attachments, two tabs
+ are displayed in the message window. Selecting the first one makes
+ the message window display the text body of the message, while selecting
+ the second tab makes the message window display the attachment part
+ of the message. In the latter case, the message window is splitted
+ in two parts, the top one contains the attachments as a tree
+ with the MIME type, size and file name of each part, while the bottom
+ part contains the content of the selected attachment (if the attachment
+ is an image and Sylpheed has been compiled with the gdk-pixbuf or
+ the imlib library).
+ </para>
+ </section>
+</chapter>