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82Part ILinux First Stepsto the next. With KDE, you can do all those things and much more. For example, you can: .Drag-and-drop a document from a folder window (Konqueror) to the Trash icon(to get rid of it) or on a OpenOffice.org Writer icon (to open it for editing). .Right-click an image file (JPEG, PNG, etc.), and the OpenWith menu lets youchoose to open the file using an image viewer (KView), editor (GIMP), slideshow viewer (Kuickshow), or other application. To make more applications available to you in the future, KDE provides a platformfor developers to create programs that easily share information and detect how todeal with different data types. The things you can do with KDE grow every day. KDE is the default desktop environment for SUSE, KNOPPIX, and several other Linuxsystems. It is available with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Core but is notinstalled by default when they are installed as desktop systems (you need to do anEverything install or to select to add KDE specifically in those cases). KDE also hasa different look-and-feel in Red Hat systems than it does from implementation onother systems that deliver KDE desktops. The following section describes how to get started with KDE. This includes usingthe KDE Setup wizard, maneuvering around the desktop, managing files, and addingapplication launchers. In this chapter, KNOPPIX is the reference model for the KDE descriptions. BecauseKDE is very configurable, there may be some differences in these descriptions forKDE in other Linux systems. Using the KDE DesktopKDE as it s delivered with KNOPPIX uses a lot of the design elements that come fromthe KDE project, so it s pretty easy to distinguish from other desktop environments. The look-and-feel has similarities to both Windows and Macintosh systems. Figure 3-3shows an example of the KDE desktop in KNOPPIX: Some of the key elements of the KDE desktop include: .Panel The KDE panel (shown along the bottom of the screen) includes itemsthat enable you to launch applications and to see minimized representations ofactive windows, applets, and virtual desktops. A K icon on the left side of thepanel is used to represent the main menu on a KDE desktop. In KNOPPIX, thaticon is followed by a KNOPPIX-specific menu (it looks like a squished penguin) and other icons to launch common applications (the file manager, Terminalwindow, Web browser, and office applications). Four virtual desktops (shown inlittle boxes numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4) are available by clicking on the number ofthe virtual desktop you want to display. Applets (on the right side of the panel) in KNOPPIX let you change your keyboard, set screen resolution, adjust audiocontrols, and view the time. Note08_