Tutorials

Information

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General System

KDE3 Features missing in KDE4 and work-arounds

• modify KDE defaults

Workspace

• How to configure panels in KDE 4.1.2 (Link to kde forum entry)
• Desktop effects in KWin
• Using with small screens (eg. Netbooks) Discusses several issues where screen space is at a premium

File Management

		Discover Dolphin
		File System Navigation
		Archive Management in Dolphin

In Kontact

How to send SMS using Kontact?

Reading and writing to mailing lists with KNode

KJots/Tips

How to blog from KOrganizer

How to sync your Palm Pre with Kontact and Google Calendar

In 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 it as a calculator
• Using it as an application launcher
• Running BASH commands in Krunner
• Navigating through options
• Using the Unit conversion plugin

In KOffice

• Basic Layout a tutorial that creates a leaflet with various images and explaining text using KWords frames technology. Several text frames and image frames will be created and positioned on the page.
• Using the Artistic Text Shape is a tutorial that shows how to get started with the artistic text shape that all KOffice applications provide.

In Mail Systems

Using Spamassassin with a Mail Reader

In Web Browsers

Make Opera look like a real KDE 4 app

In Multimedia

• Photo KDE Tutorial 1-1: Levels adjust
• Photo KDE Tutorial 1-2: Curves adjust
• Photo KDE Tutorial 1-3: White balance

• Photo KDE Tutorial 1-4: Brightness/Contrast/Gamma + Hue/Saturation/Lightness

Klipper

• How to search in phone books using Klipper

Development

• How to create and build a simple kdevelop4 project
• Screencast: Lokalize intro tutorial for KDE translators
• Screencast: using glossary in Lokalize

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