Communicate P x plications. KDE offers Plasma Desktop for normal desktop systems and Plasma Netbook for more In the era of Internet, space-constrained user interfaces like netbooks. sharing and exchanging information is essen- tial. KDE makes this Learn and play P x exchange easy by pro- The KDE educational applications help you explore viding a wide variety of the world, discover and experiment with scientific applications for the In- concepts and train your skills. Be it touch typing or ternet, networking, and watching the stars, you will find an application to communication. Browse help you. Once you get tired of learning or working, the web, share your files, the KDE games can help you relax for a few minu- chat, blog and mail with tes or more - with nice looks and easy controls the others. KDE applica- games help you to have fun. tions connect you to the world. Community P x KDE is an international team of artists, developers, Workspaces P x translators, writers, user supporters, usability ex- Your daily work on a perts and many more skilled contributors. Founded computer is done from in 1996, KDE has become one of the largest Free within a workspace Software communities. Our diverse community of which allows you to easi- thousands of contributors and millions of users ly start and manage ap- range from students in Brazil to large corporations from the United States. Communicate Create P x Learn and play Be it at home or at work, sometimes something needs to be done. A letter must be written, a graph Create be made or a document be read. KDE offers some excellent and powerful applications to perform the- Workspaces se tasks, and we try to make sure not to make your work harder than it already might be! Community Contribute P x Contribute The KDE community is always looking for new 1 KDEExperience Freedom Introduction

Dear reader! On the following pages, you will learn a bit about the KDE community and what we have created. Our large and diverse community has created an equally large and diverse set of applications and tools to have fun, keep in touch and get work done. We'll present some of these applications and give you some useful tips and hints. At the end, we will introduce ourselves - and give you a little bit of insight into who we are and why we are doing this. In short I can say that while our goals are diverse as we are ourselves, we all want to make a difference in this world, and have fun doing it. Coming together like this, working with This booklet was one another over the web, making and meeting written by (in no par- new friends and creating something we can be ticular order): Luca proud of is an incredibly valuable thing. Beltrame, Stuart Jar- I hope that by presenting a little piece of what we vis, Justin Kirby, Ro- have made and who we are, we can show you the ger Pixley, Carl Sym- difference we have made - and encourage you to ons, Vivek Prakash, join us, as an user or even as a new, eager contri- Lydia Pintscher, Va- butor! lerie Hoh, Pradeepto, Frederik Gladhorn, I wish you a fine day, Daniel Laidig, Eck- The KDE promo team and all of KDE! hart Woerner, Claudia Rauch, Bugsbane, Damien Tardy-Panis, YOUR NAME? Layout was done by Felix Michel Graphics credits: xxxxx, xxxxx, xxxxx

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Overview of applications Chat with your friends Talk to your friends online with Kopete, an instant Chat messenger that is easy to use. You can access Kopete Choqok many different networks with Kopete including AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Jabber, Facebook chat Konversation and ICQ. Bloglio Tell your friends what you are doing, thinking or pl- anning on Twitter or Identi.ca using Choqok, the Schedule & KDE micro-blogging application. It has a simple email "Quick Tweet", and a click of a button is all you need to reply and retweet. Of course you can view time- KOrganizer Akrega- lines of other people, search for specific tweets, tor KMail Kontact post images on twitpic and much more. For more basic twittering needs, the microblogging widget Share on your desktop keeps your tweet screen always at hand. Both also support other micro blogging KGet KTorrent services like Identi.ca. Larger blogs can be written using Blogilo. With the simple interface, you can write and post your blog entries easily. Blogilo easily handles multiple blogs, lets you preview blog posts quickly and add images and other content. With Blogilo, you can download your drafts onto your computer so you Although they may can continue working without internet connection. be used separately, the KDE PIM appli- Schedule and email cations are tailored to work well with Manage your life with KDE Kontact. Keep track of each other in Kon- your appointments, deadlines and vacations, ma- tact. This results in nage your todo list and keep your contacts and features like intui- phone numbers organized. tive drag-and-drop Kontact is the integrated Personal Information Ma- between appoint- nager of KDE. It gathers under one roof all the KDE ment handling, task applications you need in your everyday's life to or- lists and contacts. Let'sganize take your a personal look at data.some of them ! 3 KDE Experience Freedom Communicate

Chat with your friends simple interface, you can write and post your blog Talk to your friends online with Kopete, an instant entries easily. Blogilo messenger that is easy to use. You can access many easily handles multiple different networks with Kopete including AIM, MSN, blogs, lets you preview Google Talk, Jabber, Facebook chat and ICQ. blog posts quickly and Tell your friends what you are doing, thinking or pl- add images and other anning on Twitter or Identi.ca using Choqok, the KDE content. With Blogilo, you micro-blogging application. It has a simple „Quick can download your drafts Tweet“, and a click of a button is all you need to re- onto your computer so ply and retweet. Of course you can view timelines of you can continue working other people, search for specific tweets, post images without internet connec- on twitpic and much more. For more basic twittering tion. needs, the microblogging widget on your desktop keeps your tweet screen always at hand. Both also Schedule and email support other micro blogging services like Identi.ca. Manage your life with Larger blogs can be written using Blogilo. With the KDE Kontact. Keep track

4 KDE Experience Freedom Communicate of your appointments, deadlines and vacations, With KOrganizer, you stay organized throughout the manage your todo list weeks. Use it to write journal entries or to schedule and keep your contacts appointments, events and to-dos. and phone numbers organized. Although they may be used separately, the KDE PIM applications are tailored to work well with each Kontact is the integrated other in Kontact. This results in features like intuiti- Personal Information Ma- ve drag-and-drop between appointment handling, nager of KDE. It gathers task lists and contacts. under one roof all the KDE applications you need in KDE Kontact supports various groupware servers your everyday‘s life. to help groups work together. This means you can Let‘s take a look at some easily exchange information from all the KDE PIM of them ! applications with your workgroup : The email component, - you can share your calendar to schedule a mee- KMail, easily handles ting with your colleagues tens of thousands of - some emails folders can be shared so that every- mails, and makes sear- body within your group is aware of the progress of ching and filtering them your work a breeze. It features - addressbooks and todos list are centralized to Outlook compatibility and help you organize an activity with your fellows. can easily connect to Gmail and other web mail Share services. The newsreader in Kon- Share files with your friends using KTorrent, KDE‘s tact lets you quickly catch BitTorrent client. It is easy to create a ‚torrent‘ to up with your online infor- share a folder or individual files. You can download mation sources. You can files, finding content using popular torrent search choose to read the basic engines. If you are concerned about your network feed text or view full web- connection usage or web browsing speed, you can page from within Akrega- easily limit up- and download speeds depending tor. And if you want it can on date and time. Through extensions, KTorrent open links and even view can be customized to fit your needs. attachments right in the application - or open it in a separate browser. 5