Linux Dummies 9th

Chapter 5: Examining the KDE Desktop
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Menu Choice What You Find
Graphics
Image-manipulation programs.
Internet
Programs for interacting on the Internet.
Multimedia
Applications for handling audio and video files.
Office
Programs for office-related tasks, such as Word Processing
for wordmongering, Spreadsheets for number-crunching,
and Presentation for graphics.
Settings
Utilities for configuring user-specific settings.
System
Utilities for monitoring and setting system-wide features.
Utilities
Various programs and utilities for handling small functions
on your desktop and system.
Help
The KDE Help Center documentation.
Personal Files Access to your home folder (see Chapter 7).
You may notice some duplication of effort in the first-level menu items. Not
all KDE systems use all these menu options. Different distributions offer
different combinations of the menu items to provide a custom look and feel
for their menu.
Computer
The Computer menu tab (described in Table 5-2) provides a quick way to
jump to a specific location on your system to view files, plus quick access to
the KDE settings.
Table 5-2
Menu Choice
System Settings
System Information
Home
Network
Root
Trash
PC Floppy Drive
The Computer Menu
What You Find
This allows you access to the KDE desktop settings utility.
Provides quick access to information about your workstation
— the hard drive size and usage, network status, OS
version, and links to your important folders.
View the contents of the user’s home folder.
View any file servers available on the local network.
View the contents of the virtual directory structure.
View the items stored in the special Trash folder, and
empty the trash.
View the contents of the floppy disk inserted into the floppy
drive in the workstation.