KDE for Linux for Dummies (Paperback)

~ (Author), Katherine Wrightson (Author), Joseph Merlino (Author)

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Product Description

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.

About the Author

Michael Meadhra is an author and consultant who writes about Windows and a variety of Windows programs. After several years of experience in the corporate world, he began writing monthly software journals, and now he writes books, such as this one. To date, he has coauthored or contributed to more than two dozen titles on topics such as DOS, Windows, Lotus Freelance Graphics, the Internet, and Quicken.;

Kate Wrightson is a technical writer with several years of Linux experience and over ten years of experience using UNIX. Kate has published articles on topics ranging from the history of American higher education to clear business writing; she is the co-author of KDE for Linux For Dummies® from IDG Books Worldwide and contributed to StarOffice for Linux For Dummies®.;

Joe Merlino is a technical writer and avid Linux hobbyist. He is also a library worker and contributor to the Open Source Digital Library System project. He dabbles in Perl and Unix shell scripting. He has been a contributor to Linux Gazette, contributed to StarOffice for Linux For Dummies®, and is co-author of KDE for Linux For Dummies® from IDG Books Worldwide.

Product Details

• Paperback: 344 pages
• Publisher: Hungry Minds (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764506587
• ISBN-13: 978-0764506581
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #649,655 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

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

By	Peter Isaacson "PENFOLD" (Whittier, CA USA - Terra - Sol System) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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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

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

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.