Table of Contents In the Internet era, KDE enables you to chat, Communicate blog, share, and exchange with your friends and Page 3 colleagues. KDE Applications connect you to the world. Learn & Play With KDE education applications and games, you can learn something new and have fun with Page 7 innovative software. Create When you need to put your thoughts and fee- lings in words and images, KDE applications are Page 11 there to help you do just that. Enjoy KDE has powerful applications that offer you new ways to enjoy your music, photos, and videos. Page 15 Whatever the devices you use, you can easily Workspaces start and manage applications within a Work- Page 18 space. Founded in 1996, KDE has become one of the Community largest Free Software communities, gathering ar- Page 22 tists, developers, translators, writers, and others from all over the world. The KDE community provides opportunities for Contribute new people eager to get involved. Come and Page 26 take a look! KDE technology is being deployed around the KDE in use world in a variety of situations. In schools, in Page 34 offices and libraries. We want to give you some examples! Experience Freedom KDE Introduction Dear reader! On the following pages, you can learn a bit about the KDE community and what we have created. This booklet was Our large and diverse community has built a com- written by (in no prehensive set of applications and tools to have particular order): fun, keep in touch, and get work done. We’ll pres- Luca Beltrame, ent some of these applications and give you some Stuart Jarvis, useful tips and hints. Justin Kirby, We will also introduce the KDE teams to give you Roger Pixley, a little insight into who we are and what drives us. Carl Symons, In short, while our individual goals are as varied Vivek Prakash, as we are KDE contributors, we share a desire to Lydia Pintscher, make a difference in this world, and have fun doing Valerie Hoh, it. Working together even when separated by great Pradeepto, distances, meeting new friends, and taking pride in Frederik Gladhorn, what we’ve created are all things that we value. Daniel Laidig, Eckhart Woerner, We hope that by presenting a little piece of what Agata Marszalek, we do and who we are, we can show you the differ- Jenny Yeung, ence we have made - and encourage you to join us. Bugsbane, Perhaps you will try our software, or even decide to Damien Tardy-Panis, join KDE as a developer, translator, promoter, artist Jos Poortvliet, or in one of the many other roles that are essential Algot Runeman, to make KDE what it is. imag1narynumber, David Greengas, Irina Rempt, Bernhard Reiter The KDE promo team for all of KDE! and others Layout by Felix Michel Graphics credits: Eugene Trounev, Nuno Pinheiro, Seb Ruiz, Mauricio Piacentini 2 Communicate In the Internet era, Schedule and email sharing and exchang- Manage your life with Kontact. Read your emails, ing information is keep track of your appointments, deadlines and essential. vacations, manage your to-do list, and keep your contacts and phone numbers organized. KDE makes this easy Kontact is the integrated Personal Information Manager and Groupware Client. It gathers under by providing a wide one roof all functions you need in everyday life to variety of applica- organize your personal and professional life. tions for the Inter- net, networking, and communication. Browse the web, share your files, chat, blog, and mail with others. KDE applications Email management within Kontact connect you to the world. Let’s take a look at some of them! Kontact’s email component easily handles tens of thousands of mails, and makes searching and filtering them a breeze. It features Outlook compat- ibility and can easily connect to Gmail and other web mail services. The newsreader in Kontact lets you quickly catch up with your online information sources. You can choose to read basic feed text, view full webpages, open links, and view attachments right in the ap- plication - or open them in a separate browser. 3 Experience Freedom KDE Communicate Kontact’s Calendar helps you stay organized. Use Did you know...? it to write journal entries or to schedule appoint- ments, events and to-dos. It can handle all kinds You can quickly write a of events (such as meetings, birthdays, vacations) tweet with Choqok by and has a variety of ways to display them. Besides editing, viewing, and organizing your events, the pushing Ctrl-Super-T (the Calendar also provides alarm notifications to re- super key often has the mind you of upcoming events. ‘start’ text on it, or a KDE Kontact supports various groupware servers little flag). You can also (such as Kolab Server) to help groups work to- post to all your accounts gether. This means that you can easily exchange all types of information: at the same time by tick- • share your calendar to schedule a meeting with ing the “All” check box. your colleagues • email folders can be shared selectively to keep others in your group informed • address books and to-do list are centralized to help you plan activities with your coworkers. Chat with your friends Although you can Nowadays, who has never needed to keep in touch open the Kon- with his friends and family online? Talk to them tact components with Kopete, an instant messenger that is easy to separately, e.g. for use. You can access many different networks with Mail, Calendar or Kopete including AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Jabber, Contacts, they are Facebook chat, and ICQ. Like many KDE applica- tailored to work tions, it comes with a pack of plugins to allow you well with each other personalize your way to chat. within Kontact. This Tell your friends what you are doing, thinking, or results in features planning on Twitter or identi.ca using Choqok, the such as intuitive KDE micro-blogging application. It has a simple drag-and-drop be- “Quick Tweet”; with it, a click of a button is all you tween appointment need to reply and retweet. You can view the time- handling, task lists lines of other people, search for specific tweets, and contacts. 4 Communicate Did you know...? post images on twitpic, and more. For more basic needs, the micro-blogging widget on your desktop In the KDE email client, keeps your tweet screen always at hand. Both also support multiple micro-blogging services. you can use the right and left keys on your keyboard to go to the next or previous email, use the up and down keys to scroll through the mails, and use space to go to the next unread email automatically. This way you can quickly and easily go through all your emails without ever having to use the mouse. Tweet with Choqok For those who love writing and thus need more space to express themselves, Blogilo is great for blogging. With the simple interface, you can write and post your blog entries easily directly from Blogilo without having to open your Web browser every time. It lets you preview blog posts quickly, and add images and other content, just like what you can do with your online clients. The best is that it handles multiple blogs and you can even down- load your drafts onto your computer so you can continue working without an Internet connection. 5 Experience Freedom KDE Communicate Share Did you know...? Share files with your friends using KTorrent, KDE’s BitTorrent client. It is easy to create a ‘torrent’ to In Blogilo, you can pre- share a folder or individual files. You can download view your published post files, finding content using popular torrent search by selecting the “Blog engines. If you are concerned about your network preview” tab and clicking connection usage or web browsing speed, you can limit upload and download speeds depending on on the “Fetch blog style” date and time. Through extensions, KTorrent can button. Shortly, you will be customized to fit your needs. see your post as it would be displayed in a web Just the beginning browser once published! The KDE community has developed many more applications, covering many of your networking and communication needs. You can chat on IRC with Kon- versation, connect to remote desktops with KRDC, surf the Internet quickly and safely with Konqueror or Rekonq, and manage your downloads with KGet. No matter what you are doing on the web, KDE applications can help you connect Kontact Mobile and communicate. Kontact is also avail- able on your smart- References phone which means you can organize Choqok: http://choqok.gnufolks.org/ your personal and Blogilo: http://blogilo.gnufolks.org/ professional life wherever you are. Kontact: http://www.kontact.org Its appeal among KTorrent: http://ktorrent.org/ other “mail apps” is that you get a very complete applica- tion right into your pocket. 6 Learn & Play The KDE educational Discover applications help you Learning and playing aren’t necessarily separate explore your world, tasks. Many KDE games and educational programs discover and experi- allow you to do both at the same time. And best of all, the wide range of programs means that there is ment with scientific something for everyone, across all ages and inter- concepts, and ests! Learn languages; practise touch typing; and develop your skills. explore geometry, physics, or math with the educa- tional applications from the KDE community. From touch typing to Young children can learn to identify letters with star watching, you KLettres and to handle fractions with KBruch. will find an applica- Older children and adults can challenge or train themselves with Blinken or KWordquiz.