To access the Preferences dialog, select Preferences... from the ICQ menu. The Preferences dialog, shown in Figure 11 appears.
The properties in the Interface tab are:
Colors This section allows you to change the colors used in the contact list for users in different states.
Enable sounds — This allows you to enable and disable sounds.
Customizing sounds: To change the default sounds and configure different sounds for different events, use the GNOME Control Center's Multimedia -> Sound applet.
Enable sounds only when online — This allows you to disable sounds notification when not in Online status (e.g. Occupied status), to prevent them from disturbing you or others when you're not available to receive messages.
Enable beeps — This makes GnomeICU produce short beeps from the built-in speaker of your computer. This might be useful on computers without a real sound device.
Show Main Window on Startup — This makes the main window display when GnomeICU start.
Automatically Show Entire Reply Dialog — When a new message is received, this will make the incoming message window contain the reply text box right away, without having to click Reply.
Automatically Popup Message Windows — This makes incoming message windows appear and take focus right when the message is received. Otherwise, the message window will only popup when you click the blinking icon in the panel applet or in the contact list.
Online Notify Includes Returning from Away and N/A — This makes GnomeICU notify you when contacts in your Notify List return from Away and N/A status (besides the regular behavior of notifying you when the contact goes Online from Offline status).
Hide tool-tips — Hides the tool-tips which you receive by moving your mouse cursor over the panel applet for few seconds.
The properties in the Networking tab are:
Russian Win1251<->Koi8-r translation — This allows you to communicate with ICQ users on Microsoft Windows platforms in Cyrillic languages. This makes GnomeICU convert incoming messages from Win1251 encoding (also known as 'cp1251', the standard encoding in Microsoft Windows) to Koi8-R (a popular encoding in UNIX) and vice versa for outgoing messages.
Do not use this feature if communicating in other languages |
This feature is likely to interfere with other languages encodings and place wrong letters in both incoming and outgoing messages. Use only for Cyrillic (Russian). |
Kanji EUC<->SJIS translation — This makes GnomeICU convert between different Japanese encodings.
Dump UDP packets — This dumps contents of all incoming and outgoing UDP packets to standard output (stdout). This option is intended for developers and has no use to regular users.
Dump TCP packets — This dumps contents of all incoming and outgoing TCP packets to standard output (stdout). This option is intended for developers and has no use to regular users.
Server — This allows you to configure which ICQ server you wish GnomeICU to use.
Warning |
For the Server and Port settings, the default should be correct for most users. Changing those settings might cause GnomeICU to be unable to connect to the ICQ service. |
TCP Port Range — This allows you to specify the TCP port range you want GnomeICU to listen to for incoming connections. This is necessary for peer-to-peer messages (instant messages which are not "sent through server"), chats and file transfers. The default should be fine for most users.
The properties in the External Programs tab are:
This allows you to run an external program upon receiving various events, such as receiving a message.
The properties in the Away Messages tab are:
Away Message 1..10 — This allows you to prepare "Away Messages for later use. When you change status from 'Online' to 'Away', 'Not Available', 'Occupied' or 'Do Not Disturb', GnomeICU asks you for a small note to be displayed for users trying to send you messages. You could then enter a new message or use one of those 10 predefined ones.
Auto away time out is... — This allows you to define how many minutes of inactivity (not using the input devices, e.g. mouse or keyboard) it takes before GnomeICU switches status to Away.
Auto N/A time out is... — Similar to the previous option, but switches status to Not Available (N/A) (and hints other users that you walked away for more than a cup of coffee and might not be available in the near time).
The properties in the Miscellaneous tab are:
Allow others to see me on websites — This allows or disallows other people to see your details on the ICQ website.
Automatically hide main window after... — This allows you to hide the main window after a specified number of seconds.
User Information Basic user information can be changed in this section.
Click on the Apply button to apply the changes without closing the dialog. Click on the OK button to apply the changes and close the dialog. Click the Cancel button to close the dialog without applying the changes you have made.