KDE for Linux for Dummies [Paperback]

Michael Meadhra (Author), Joe Merlino (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0764506587 | ISBN-13: 978-0764506581

CD-ROM includes the K Desktop Environment

Packed with savvy shortcuts and goof-proof tips

Customize your Linux desktop with KDE — quickly and easily! KDE is the graphical desktop choice for millions of Linux users. KDE for Linux^® For Dummies^® guides you through the pitfalls of setting up, customizing, and actually using KDE on a Linux machine — and shows you how to make your desktop look and act the way you want it to. all this on the bonus CD-ROM KDE version 1.1.1, a dozen "official" KDE applications, over 80 desktop themes, and more than 50 third-party KDE applications PC running Linux with WT 1.4.2 or higher (as included in most popular Linux packages); CD-ROM drive. For details and system requirements, see the CD-ROM appendix

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About the Author

Michael Meadhra, Kate Wrightson, and Joe Merlino are seasoned technical experts who have written or contributed to more than twenty books, including StarOffice^™ For Linux^® For Dummies^® and StarOffice^™ For Linux^® Bible.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies (February 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764506587
• ISBN-13: 978-0764506581
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,814,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yet Another 'Dummy Book' To The Rescue!, June 23, 2009

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Peter Isaacson "PENFOLD" (Whittier, CA USA - Terra - Sol System) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KDE for Linux for Dummies (Paperback)

Firstly, I have to say that these Dummy Books really WORK.
Yes, you kinda look like ID10T holding one, but the payoff is you *do* feel smarter afterwords.
What sold me on the Dummy Books is that a place that employed my Computer Gurus had these books on a shelf above the workbench.
I figured that if *my* Computer Gurus used Dummy Books, they must be good.....and they are!
If you're in need of a How-To manual that's Simple, Organised, To-The-Point, and a little humour thrown in.....Dummy Books fit the bill.

Now onto the review proper.
I had a Linux (FYI: Fedora 8) box built to use as a media center, and my Linux Guru installed KDE.
The embedded help only goes so far.....I needed a Dead Tree Manual to help me along.
Since I was able to teach myself HTML from a Dummy Book.....Why not a Dummy Book to bring myself up to speed on KDE?
As always, the Dummy Books never fail to deliver.
This book's well organised and thought out.
I like the friendly writing style.
I find it easy going and casual, far better to learn and educate oneself than something that's written that sounds like some some bored professor with tenure in some huge lecture hall

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad., April 1, 2000

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Kyle Tuskey (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: KDE for Linux for Dummies (Paperback)

Good for linux admins that couldn't get kde documentation in some of the other books. Get this and a gnome book and you are ready to go.