fox2mike 05/07/01 10:47:09 Modified: xml/htdocs/doc/en kde-config.xml Log: #97592 - Grammar fixes, thanks to the patch by Benno Schulenberg. No content change.
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This guide tries to describe -all aspects of KDE, including installation, configuration, usage, ... +all aspects of KDE, including installation, configuration and usage. </abstract> <!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license --> -<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0 --> +<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> <license/> <version>1.9</version> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ <p> The <uri link="http://www.kde.org";>KDE Project</uri> is a free software project dedicated to the development of KDE, an open source graphical desktop -environment for Linux and Unix workstations. The development is covered by +environment for Linux and Unix workstations. The development is carried out by several hundred software engineers from all over the world committed to free software development. See also <uri link="http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/project.php";>What is the KDE Project</uri>. @@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ <body> <p> -The K Desktop Environment is an easy to use desktop environment build around a -well-thought application framework to allow for application interoperability, -drag 'n drop, etc. Apart from the necessary components the KDE environment also -provides ready-to-use applications for 101 tasks: file management, Internet -browser, office application, e-mail handling, ... Everything is covered by the -KDE project. +The K Desktop Environment is an easy-to-use desktop environment built around a +well thought out application framework to allow for application +interoperability, drag n drop and so on. Apart from the essential components, +the KDE environment also provides ready-to-use applications for 101 tasks: file +management, Internet browsing, office applications, e-mail handling, ... +Everything is covered by the KDE project. </p> <p> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Many KDE-based community sites exist. On <uri link="http://www.kdenews.org";>KDEnews.org</uri> you'll find the latest news on KDE generally. <uri link="http://www.kdedevelopers.org";>KDEdevelopers.org</uri> -is targeted at the KDE development specifically, while <uri +is specifically focussed on KDE development, while <uri link="http://www.kde-forum.org";>KDE-forum</uri> is better suited for the large masses. More links can be found on the <uri link="http://www.kde.org/family/";>KDE Family page</uri>. @@ -90,8 +90,7 @@ <p> If you're interested in installing KDE (or KDE support), you will have to make sure that your USE variable contains the <c>kde</c> and <c>qt</c> -flags. For those of you interested, Qt is the graphical widget library KDE -uses. +flags. Qt is the graphical widget library that KDE uses. </p> <p> @@ -125,7 +124,7 @@ If you're not interested in installing all those packages, you can emerge the individual packages. You will most definitely want the <c>kdebase</c> package as it contains KDE's base packages and necessities. The following table lists some -available packages you can emerge. +of the other available packages that you can install. </p> <table> @@ -259,8 +258,8 @@ <body> <p> -More recent KDE versions (from 3.4 onwards) are now represented by a plethora of -<uri link="/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml">split ebuilds</uri> making it a tad +More recent KDE versions (from 3.4 onwards) are presented as a plethora of +<uri link="/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml">split ebuilds</uri>, making it a tad more difficult to know what to install and what not. Gentoo does provide a few meta packages that will pull in a certain amount of KDE packages for you: </p> @@ -277,10 +276,10 @@ </ul> <p> -These two are the extreme limits; you are probably interested in a safe mixture -of the two :) To make the decision process a lot easier on your hands, the -following table gives a short, incomplete yet useful oversight on some of the -available KDE packages. +These two possibilities are the extreme limits; you are probably interested in +a safe mixture of the two :) To make your decision process somewhat easier, the +following table gives a short, very incomplete yet useful overview of some of +the available KDE packages. </p> <p> @@ -414,15 +413,15 @@ </table> <p> -And this is just a small tip of the ice berg. If you want to know more about all +And this is just a small tip of the iceberg. If you want to know more about all possible KDE applications, take a look inside the <uri link="http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=kde-base";>kde-base category</uri>. Their function should be available in the description. </p> <p> -To preview what emerge would install, use <c>emerge -p</c> with the <c>less</c> -pager, otherwise you might not be able to see all packages. +To preview what emerge would install, use <c>emerge -p</c> together with the +<c>less</c> pager, otherwise you might not be able to see all packages. </p> <pre caption="Previewing the kde installation"> @@ -432,7 +431,7 @@ <p> If you are happy with the proposed result, leave the <c>-p</c> out. This -building process will take some time as KDE is a big environment so don't be +building process will take some time as KDE is a big environment. Don't be surprised when your system does not finish immediately :-) </p> @@ -456,8 +455,8 @@ <body> <p> -Now let us take a look at the result. Now your mother has probably told you -never to work as root. So we'll take on your mother's advice and test +Let us have a look at the result. Your mother has probably told you +never to work as root. So we'll take your mother's advice and test KDE as a user. Log in as your user and configure your session so it starts KDE when you issue <c>startx</c>. You can do this by writing <c>exec startkde</c> in <path>~/.xinitrc</path> (see also @@ -514,7 +513,7 @@ </p> <p> -Next KPersonalizer asks for the amount of eye-candy it should activate. The more +Next, KPersonalizer asks for the amount of eye-candy it should activate. The more eye-candy you want, the funkier your KDE will be, but the more your CPU will be stressed. However, this should be taken with a bit of salt - on a 600 Mhz CPU with 128 Mb of memory, enabling full eye candy still results in a responsive @@ -562,8 +561,8 @@ <p> Now run <c>emerge kde-i18n</c> to install the language packs. Once settled, fire up KDE, then start the KDE Control Center (K-menu > Settings > Control -Center). This is <e>the</e> application where you can control almost every -aspect of KDE. It is much more extended than KPersonalizer. +Center). This is <e>the</e> application where you can control almost +every aspect of KDE. It is much more extended than KPersonalizer. </p> <p> @@ -580,8 +579,8 @@ <p> If you want to use <c>kdm</c> as graphical login manager (which means you don't -have to log on onto a terminal and type <c>startx</c> every time) you need -to edit a configuration file and setup your system so that it enters graphical +have to login to a terminal and type <c>startx</c> every time) you need +to edit a configuration file and set up your system so that it enters graphical mode after boot, as explained below. </p> -- [email protected] mailing list
