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The K Desktop Environment (KDE) Page 1 We Shall be Covering ... Desktop environment The KDE Desktop Control Center Konqueror Help Center Page 2 The Desktop Environment A common graphical user interface and platform


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The K Desktop Environment (KDE)

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We Shall be Covering ...

  • Desktop environment
  • The KDE Desktop
  • Control Center
  • Konqueror
  • Help Center
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The Desktop Environment

  • A common graphical user interface and

platform

  • A collection of X clients (programs)

working together

  • Similar look and feel
  • Facilitates inter-process communication

and passing of data

  • Drag-and-drop, cut-and-paste between

processes and applications

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The Desktop Environment

Two commonly used ones:

  • GNOME – default desktop for many

popular Linux distributions (www.gnome.org)

  • KDE – longer history than GNOME, used
  • n many Linux and non-Linux systems

(www.kde.org )

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The KDE Desktop

  • An alternative to GNOME, widely used

in Linux and other OSS platforms

  • Many Linux systems support both (only
  • ne can be used at any one time)
  • KDE applications can run in GNOME

and vice versa if the graphic libraries required by each of these desktop environments are available

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The KDE Desktop

To switch to KDE use:

  • At the graphical login screen, click on Session

(at the bottom) and select KDE

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The KDE Desktop

Or use a desktop switching program, e.g. for Fedora/Red Hat,

  • Main Menu --> System Settings --> More

System Settings --> Desktop Switching Tool

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The KDE Desktop

  • KDE has many similarities as well as some

differences with the GNOME desktop

  • KDE makes use of the Main Menu, Panel and

the desktop too

  • Some differences in handling the placement of

icons on the desktop and panel

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The KDE Desktop

Right-clicking an icon brings up different options Entries in the Main Menu may not be identical

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Control Center

  • A central place where all the Desktop

and system configuration can be set and viewed

– Main Menu --> Control Center

  • To configure a particular setting, open

up the section it is under and select the item to configure

  • For example, to change the

background colour, select,

– Appearance & Themes --> Background

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Control Center

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Konqueror

  • Standards-compliant web browser and

default file manager for KDE

  • Navigate filesystem as you would the WWW
  • Provides all the normal file manager

functionalities:

– navigation of the filesystem – file/folder copying, renaming, deletion

creation

– application launching

  • Able to display graphic image files and

generate an image gallery web page from them.

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Konqueror

Konqueror File Manager

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Konqueror

Konqueror Web Browser

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Help Center

  • Extensive KDE online documentation –

the Help Center, invoke by,

– Main Menu --> Help

  • Covers the graphical desktop usage,

configuration as well as the KDE applets and applications

  • Standard Unix/Linux manual and info

pages can be accessed from here too.

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Help Center

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