Tutorials

If you are a system administrator who is rolling out new or managing existing KDE deployments in their organization, you should definitely look at the KDE System Administration section.

Getting Started

	How to Install KDE neon
	How to install KDE software
	Some common tasks explained
	The Jargon File explains some of the words that you may be unfamiliar with.
	Entering "special characters" - characters that are not on your normal keyboard
	Creating keyboard shortcuts
	Modify your system defaults
	Open a console
	Access another computer's display
	Change the color of the blue folder icon
	Mouse pointer settings for large displays
	Using a single database for KDE programs

Workspace

	Tweaking Plasma
	Plasma Tips & Tricks
	Learn how to create a look and feel package
	Using with small screens (eg. Netbooks) Discusses several issues where screen space is at a premium
	Kimpanel Build a plasmoid for controlling input methods
	Color Management Enabling color management
	Keyboard actions Configuring keyboard actions
	Using Other Window Managers with Plasma Using Other Window Managers with Plasma.

File Management

	Discover Dolphin
	File System Navigation
	Archive Management in Dolphin
	Transfer files from and to a server using ftp, sftp, webdav and the like
	Adding an entry to the Create New menu of file browsers

Kontact

	How to send SMS using Kontact
	Reading and writing to mailing lists with KNode
	Import old KNowIt files into KJots
	Recover deleted KJots books
	How to blog from KOrganizer
	How to sync your Palm Pre with Kontact and Google Calendar
	How to synchronize Google contacts and calendar with KAddressbook and KOrganizer
	How to use Office365.com with Kontact

KRunner

	KRunner is an amazingly useful utility, launched either by Alt + F2, or by a right-click on the desktop, and selecting 'Run Command'. Now learn some of its uses
	Using KRunner as a calculator
	Using KRunner as an application launcher
	Running BASH commands in KRunner
	Navigating through options
	Using the Unit conversion plugin

KOffice

These tutorials are obsolete and need to be updated for calligra. If you know about how to use calligra, please help.

	Basic Layout is a tutorial that creates a leaflet with various images and explaining text using KWord's frames technology. Several text frames and image frames will be created and positioned on the page.
	A Second Layout experiments with placing, grouping and moving images within a text area.
	A third Layout builds a page for a photo album.
	Using the Artistic Text Shape is a tutorial that shows how to get started with the artistic text shape that all KOffice applications provide.
	KWord Manual Tutorial on basic concepts of working in a frame-based environment, and detailed guides for all your WP needs.

Mail Systems

Spam filtering with KMail

Web Browsers

Mousegestures for all Browsers

Multimedia

	MIDI in Linux
	Burn an Audio Cd with K3b

Graphics

	Photo Tutorial 1-1: Levels adjust
	Photo Tutorial 1-2: Curves adjust
	Photo Tutorial 1-3: White balance
	Photo Tutorial 1-4: Brightness/Contrast/Gamma + Hue/Saturation/Lightness
	Photo KDE Tutorial 1-5: Perspective Adjustment
	Correct Lens Distortion with digiKam
	Improve Photos with digiKam’s Local Contrast Tool
	Exposure Blending with digiKam
	Renaming Photos with digiKam
	Watermark Photos with digiKam
	Load thumbnails faster with digiKam

We now have a host of additional tutorials that will improve your productivity in digiKam or showFoto. They are listed on the Photography category page. The digiKam Tutorials page gives brief descriptions of them. Enjoy the power!

Klipper

How to search in phone books using Klipper

Marble

	Installing Marble on a Nokia N900
	Setting up Offline Routing on a Nokia N900
	Route Planning and Guidance Mode on a Nokia N900
	GPS Tracking
	Map Theme Configuration
	Using Bookmarks
	Searching Places

Kde Connect

Usefull commands for KDE Connect

Development

	How to get php documentation up to date in Quanta