If you can work a mouse, you can learn to navigate the KDE desktop.
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Getting into the Desktop 3
The lack of an integrated, standardized desktop environment once held back Linux and other
UNIX systems from acceptance on the desktop. While individual applications ran well, you mostly
could not drag-and-drop files or other items between applications. Likewise, you couldn??™t open a
file and expect the machine to launch the correct application to deal with it or save your windows
from one login session to the next. With KDE, you can do all those things and much more. For
example, you can:
Drag-and-drop a document from a folder window (Konqueror) to the Trash icon (to get
rid of it) or on an OpenOffice.org Writer icon (to open it for editing).
Right-click an image file (JPEG, PNG, and so on), and the OpenWith menu lets you
choose to open the file using an image viewer (KView), editor (The GIMP), slide show
viewer (KuickShow), or other application.
To make more applications available to you in the future, KDE provides a platform for developers
to create programs that easily share information and detect how to deal with different data types.
The things you can do with KDE increase in number every day.
KDE is the default desktop environment for Mandriva, KNOPPIX, and several other Linux systems.
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