Practical KDE (Practical) [Paperback]

Dennis E. Powell (Author), Robert Bernstein (Editor), Dennis Powell (Author)

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ISBN-10: 078972216X | ISBN-13: 978-0789722164 | Publication Date: December 20, 1999 | Edition: 1st

Practical KDE suits your needs if you need to learn how to run KDE on your Linux system efficiently, effectively, and with an understandable guide that you can refer to over and over. Topics covered in Practical KDE include installation, configuration, adding applications to the desktop, navigating the desktop, manipulating file archives, preparing documents with Klyx, mounting drives, and KDE on the network.

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Practical KDE suits your needs if you need to learn how to run KDE on your Linux system efficiently, effectively, and with an understandable guide that you can refer to over and over. Topics covered in Practical KDE include installation, configuration, adding applications to the desktop, navigating the desktop, manipulating file archives, preparing documents with Klyx, mounting drives, and KDE on the network.

About the Author

Dennis E. Powell is an award-winning reporter and writer who has extensive experience in a variety of media over more than 25 years. He has written for Forbes FYI, The New York Post, Tropic (the magazine of The Miami Herald), and Yankee. He recently completed the section on Caldera's DR-DOS in the upcoming Special Edition Using Microsoft DOS. Dennis has been involved in computing since the early days of the IBM PC. Since the acquisition of his first computer he has built all his own machines and those of friends, family, and commercial clients. He has several years' experience with Linux and has employed KDE from its beginning.

Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Que; 1st edition (December 20, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078972216X
• ISBN-13: 978-0789722164
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,651,975 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Practical and humorous, January 30, 2000

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Mark O. Davis (San Angelo, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Practical KDE (Practical) (Paperback)

If you are new to the K Desktop Environment for Unix, this book is an invaluable reference for learning your way around the desktop, customizing the way things look and using the applications that come with it. It also encourages you to get down and dirty with Linux, giving instructions on where to find the latest distributions and cool applications and how to compile and use them. Mr. Powell writes with a dry and sometimes cynical wit, which makes for enjoyable reading.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical KDE, March 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Practical KDE (Practical) (Paperback)

Great book for Linux newbies (Ah-hem! - I guess that's ME!) but seems to have enough info for anyone getting up and running with the "K" desktop environment, as well as plenty of tips for the more sopisticated "K" user as well. Mr. Powell's work is such a joy to read, and his sense of humor makes this "getting adquainted" '(ad)venture' with the KDE gui so much more palpable ... a far cry from most modern so-called "introductory" (read: novice) computer manuals....this one has the info without being overly-simplistic.... 5 stars.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Buyer be warned!, October 21, 2002

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David Blount (White Plains, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Practical KDE (Practical) (Paperback)

This book relates to a thoroughly outdated version of KDE, 1.1. Version 2 is a different world in many respects. Be sure that you're using an archaic version of KDE before you spend money on this book. Otherwise the book might have some kind of historical value I guess. Advice to the author: it's very easy to overuse the word "breathtakingly" when you're writing about software.