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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" id="preferences_chat">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="preferences#application" />
<link type="next" xref="preferences_spellcheck" />
<title type="sort">3. Chat</title>
<title type="link">Chat</title>
<desc>
Configuring <app>Cthulhu</app>'s support for IM and IRC
</desc>
<credit type="author">
<name>Joanmarie Diggs</name>
<email>joanied@gnome.org</email>
</credit>
<license>
<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
</license>
</info>
<title>Chat Preferences</title>
<p>
The following options allow you to customize how <app>Cthulhu</app>
behaves when providing access to instant messaging and internet
relay chat clients.
</p>
<section id="speak_name">
<title>Speak Chat Room name</title>
<p>
If this checkbox is checked, <app>Cthulhu</app> will prefix incoming messages
with the name of the room or buddy they came from, unless they came from
the currently-focused conversation.
</p>
<p>
Default value: not checked
</p>
</section>
<section id="announce_typing">
<title>Announce when your buddies are typing</title>
<p>
If this checkbox is checked, and if <app>Cthulhu</app> has sufficient
information identifying that your buddy is typing, <app>Cthulhu</app> will
announce changes in typing status.
</p>
<p>
Default value: not checked
</p>
</section>
<section id="message_histories">
<title>Provide chat room specific message histories</title>
<p>
If this checkbox is checked, <app>Cthulhu</app>'s commands for reviewing
recent messages will only apply to the currently-focused conversation.
Otherwise, the history will contain the most recent messages regardless
of which conversation they came from.
</p>
<p>
Default value: not checked
</p>
</section>
<section id="speak_messages_from">
<title>Speak messages from</title>
<p>
This group of radio buttons allows you to control under what circumstances
<app>Cthulhu</app> will present an incoming message to you. Your choices are:
</p>
<list>
<item>
<p><gui>All channels</gui></p>
</item>
<item>
<p><gui>A channel only if its window is active</gui></p>
</item>
<item>
<p><gui>All channels when any chat window is active</gui></p>
</item>
</list>
<p>
Default value: all channels
</p>
</section>
</page>