2008/5/15 david <<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a>>:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">sf2rio wrote:<br>
<br>
> Can anyone recommend a good book for background<br>
> understanding of KDE?<br>
<br>
</div>Sorry, cannot. Haven't referred to a book about KDE ever, and only once<br>
referred to a book about Linux (the user manual of the first Linux<br>
distribution I used).<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>well, i've found google, the various wikis and the forums to be much more instructive than any book. at least for 80-90% of the stuff one needs. also books tend to put inside a lot of stuff that is more or less useless so that to put more pages and to have the cost levitated. <br>
some examples are:<br><br><a href="http://wiki.kde.org/">http://wiki.kde.org/</a><br><br><a href="http://www.kde-forum.org/">http://www.kde-forum.org/</a><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> I've looked at Amazon.com and<br>
> have seen "KDE for Linux for Dummies"<br>
<br>
</div>The Dummy series have always been good.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> and also something called "KDE Bible."<br>
<br>
</div>Might be overkill.</blockquote><div><br>in my opinion it's useless unless you don't want to become a system administrator of kde based systems.<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> I'm a newbie to Linux and KDE and I'm a pretty basic<br>
> home user; email, internet research, basic word<br>
> processing.<br>
><br>
> I've had my new system for a couple of months and I<br>
> understand how to operate everything that was<br>
> pre-installed on the notebook when I bought it.<br>
><br>
> My problem is that I don't know how to add/change<br>
> things. I have KDE 3.5 and I don't know if I should go<br>
> to KDE 4.0.<br>
<br>
</div>Don't. KDE4 isn't fully-functional yet compared to KDE3.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>some apps of kde 4 a re good, but still the overall system quality is not at 3.5 standards. maybe by 4.1, scheduled for july, it will will function well. i hope it will function well by that time and that it will support the new libpciaccess api of the new xorg.<br>
</div><br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br>dott. ing. beso