From 3c152dcd9b0f62c878a1a56150fcbed404adb44c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Darrell Anderson Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:15:27 -0500 Subject: Help handbook updates. --- doc/userguide/base-tde-applications.docbook | 16 ++++++++-------- doc/userguide/control-center.docbook | 6 +++--- doc/userguide/extragear-applications.docbook | 4 ++-- doc/userguide/messaging-intro.docbook | 6 +++--- doc/userguide/panel-and-desktop.docbook | 2 +- doc/userguide/playing-audiocds.docbook | 8 ++++---- doc/userguide/playing-music.docbook | 2 +- doc/userguide/standard-menu-entries.docbook | 2 +- doc/userguide/tde-as-root.docbook | 4 ++-- doc/userguide/tde-edutainment.docbook | 6 +++--- doc/userguide/tde-for-admins.docbook | 2 +- doc/userguide/tde-office.docbook | 8 ++++---- doc/userguide/windows-how-to.docbook | 4 ++-- 13 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/userguide') diff --git a/doc/userguide/base-tde-applications.docbook b/doc/userguide/base-tde-applications.docbook index 85ed6283a..9696aeac7 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/base-tde-applications.docbook +++ b/doc/userguide/base-tde-applications.docbook @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The Base &tde; Applications -What follows is a brief description of a few of the base &tde; applications. For more information on any of the applications you should check the links recommended with each respective entry. +What follows is a brief description of a few of the base &tde; applications. For more information on any of the applications you should check the links recommended with each respective entry. @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Related Information - http://kde-apps.org -- The largest directory of third-party &tde; applications. + http://kde-apps.org -- mdash; The largest directory of third-party &tde; applications. As you may have noticed, a wealth of information is accessible from the respective handbooks themselves, which can be accessed either by using the help KIO slave in &konqueror; (that is, type help:/application in the Location toolbar), or by selecting it in the &khelpcenter;. You can also likely find out quite a bit of information from the &tde; website, itself, at http://kde.org. @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Personal Information Management -&tde; PIM (Personal Information Manager) is a sub-project of &tde;, and it aims to provide an application suite to manage personal information. It has several components, but these can all be brought under one application -- &kontact;, which is the personal information manager. Below is an overview of a few of its popular components; that is, a few of the applications that integrate into it. +&tde; PIM (Personal Information Manager) is a sub-project of &tde;, and it aims to provide an application suite to manage personal information. It has several components, but these can all be brought under one application -- mdash; &kontact;, which is the personal information manager. Below is an overview of a few of its popular components; that is, a few of the applications that integrate into it. @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ &kget; - A manager for your downloads which integrates with &konqueror;. &kget; allows you to group your downloads, pause and resume them, as well as several other things. + A manager for your downloads which integrates with &konqueror;. &kget; allows you to group your downloads, pause and resume them, as well as several other things. Website: http://kget.sourceforge.net @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ KView - An image viewer program which supports a number of different image filetypes including JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF and many others. Kview has full integration with &tde; and it can be embedded into &konqueror; for viewing image files on your diskdrive as well as your FTP site or webserver, using its &URL; open support. Other features include a few image manipulations such as zoom, rotate, grayscale and flip. + An image viewer program which supports a number of different image filetypes including JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF and many others. Kview has full integration with &tde; and it can be embedded into &konqueror; for viewing image files on your diskdrive as well as your FTP site or webserver, using its &URL; open support. Other features include a few image manipulations such as zoom, rotate, grayscale and flip. Website: http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~ssk/kde/kview/ @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ &kolourpaint; - A simple and easy-to-use paint program, with features such as basic painting (drawing diagrams and finger painting), image manipulation and icon editing. + A simple and easy-to-use paint program, with features such as basic painting (drawing diagrams and finger painting), image manipulation and icon editing. Website: http://kolourpaint.sourceforge.net @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ &juk; - An easy-to-use music player for &tde;. &juk; is playlist and meta-data focused, allowing you to quickly search through the dynamic playlist provided. Some of the features include &CD; cover-art fetching from Google images, MusicBrainz integration for file identification over the Internet, and multiple audio backends, including &arts;, GStreamer and aKode. + An easy-to-use music player for &tde;. &juk; is playlist and meta-data focused, allowing you to quickly search through the dynamic playlist provided. Some of the features include &CD; cover-art fetching from Google images, MusicBrainz integration for file identification over the Internet, and multiple audio backends, including &arts;, GStreamer and aKode. Website: http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/juk.html @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ &noatun; - A media player capable of playing WAV, Ogg Vorbis, as well as DivX encoded AVIs and other media formats. &noatun; features audio effects, a six-band graphic equalizer, a full plugin architecture, network transparency, and various look and feels. + A media player capable of playing WAV, Ogg Vorbis, as well as DivX encoded AVIs and other media formats. &noatun; features audio effects, a six-band graphic equalizer, a full plugin architecture, network transparency, and various look and feels. Website: http://noatun.kde.org diff --git a/doc/userguide/control-center.docbook b/doc/userguide/control-center.docbook index 715fcaa02..fd2212f88 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/control-center.docbook +++ b/doc/userguide/control-center.docbook @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ unless you really knew what you were doing. with you, or can enable you to log in remotely to your machine from another location. You would then use a VNC client like &tde;'s Remote Desktop Connection application to control your desktop over the network. This is -extremely useful if you want someone to help you perform a task. +extremely useful if you want someone to help you perform a task. Here you can create and manage invitations as well as set your security policy for uninvited connections. You can also configure whether to @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ devices such as keyboards and joysticks. orientation and refresh rate of your display, and whether you would like these settings to be applied on &tde; startup. On the Power Control tab, you can configure your power management options for -this screen such as blanking. +this screen such as blanking. Joystick @@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ configuration files for a &Linux; kernel. This configurator is compatible with k Login Manager This module allows you to configure the &tde; login manager, &tdm;. &tdm; is -a powerful login manager with a large range of options. It supports user switching, remote graphical logins and has a fully customizable appearance. For more information, see the &tdm; handbook. +a powerful login manager with a large range of options. It supports user switching, remote graphical logins and has a fully customizable appearance. For more information, see the &tdm; handbook. Paths diff --git a/doc/userguide/extragear-applications.docbook b/doc/userguide/extragear-applications.docbook index c2fa0bcc6..86ede9991 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/extragear-applications.docbook +++ b/doc/userguide/extragear-applications.docbook @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ &tde; Extragear Applications -These are applications that are directly associated with &tde;, the project, but do not appear and are not shipped with the main &tde; distribution. This can be down to a number of reasons, but a common case is either down to a duplication of functionality, or because they're simply too specialised. Perhaps the most popular occurence however is that the developers themselves may not want it to appear in the main &tde; distribution; choosing, rather, to handle their own release schedules. Nevertheless, the applications in Extragear are distinguished by &tde;, and many are increasingly popular. +These are applications that are directly associated with &tde;, the project, but do not appear and are not shipped with the main &tde; distribution. This can be down to a number of reasons, but a common case is either down to a duplication of functionality, or because they're simply too specialised. Perhaps the most popular occurence however is that the developers themselves may not want it to appear in the main &tde; distribution; choosing, rather, to handle their own release schedules. Nevertheless, the applications in Extragear are distinguished by &tde;, and many are increasingly popular. Available in the &tde; Extragear @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ K3b - The definitive &CD;/DVD burning application for &tde;. With K3b you can create data, video, and audio (it comes with plugins for WAV, MP3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis) &CD;s. Projects can be saved and loaded, &CD;-ripping is supported, and you can appropriately make &CD;/DVD copies. + The definitive &CD;/DVD burning application for &tde;. With K3b you can create data, video, and audio (it comes with plugins for WAV, MP3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis) &CD;s. Projects can be saved and loaded, &CD;-ripping is supported, and you can appropriately make &CD;/DVD copies. Extragear Summary: http://extragear.kde.org/apps/k3b/ diff --git a/doc/userguide/messaging-intro.docbook b/doc/userguide/messaging-intro.docbook index a4d7b30b2..54efbdccf 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/messaging-intro.docbook +++ b/doc/userguide/messaging-intro.docbook @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ linkend="integrated-messaging"/> Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has been around far longer than most IM systems, and is still widely used. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication. -The #kde channel is under Freenode, the IRC server, which provides an interactive environment for coordination and support of peer-directed projects, including -- and placing particular stress upon -- those relating to free software and open source projects, such as &tde;. +The #kde channel is under Freenode, the IRC server, which provides an interactive environment for coordination and support of peer-directed projects, including -- mdash; and placing particular stress upon -- mdash; those relating to free software and open source projects, such as &tde;. While &kopete; has a IRC plugin, and handles both channels and nicks well, @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ client and look if that person is online via MSN, Jabber or IRC. Well The requirements are &kmail;, &kaddressbook; and &kopete; (Konversation should do as well). Make sure &kmail; is configured and fully functional for email, and Kopete is well configured for IRC, -Jabber and/or MSN and/or any other protocol. +Jabber and/or MSN and/or any other protocol. If an email comes in from a contact you know, the first thing you have to do is to add it to your address book. This can be achieved @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ see that it shows an extra field Presence, followed by the status. This status will automatically update as soon as the contact goes away, offline, online, and so on. Now go to &kmail;, select another email and return to the original email (in other words: reload the current email). You can now see behind the email address the -current state of your contact. +current state of your contact. If you want to chat with this person, just right click the address in &kmail; and choose Chat With.... Your diff --git a/doc/userguide/panel-and-desktop.docbook b/doc/userguide/panel-and-desktop.docbook index 7720df201..f0e189cee 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/panel-and-desktop.docbook +++ b/doc/userguide/panel-and-desktop.docbook @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ virtual desktop by clicking on its image in the desktop pager. You can find information about the other applets available for &kicker; in the &kicker; manual. Just enter help:/kicker in the -Location bar in &konqueror;. +Location bar in &konqueror;. diff --git a/doc/userguide/playing-audiocds.docbook b/doc/userguide/playing-audiocds.docbook index 38e8c9f77..300a2badd 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/playing-audiocds.docbook +++ b/doc/userguide/playing-audiocds.docbook @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ liking. CDDB, in case you didn't know, stands for CD DataBase Disc DataBase in it's more free flowing form). This functionality enables &tde; to retrieve the Artist/Album/Track information about your CDs from the Internet. This metadata is also used to write tags to the MP3 or Ogg files -that you'll be encoding your CDs to anytime now. +that you'll be encoding your CDs to anytime now. @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ pressing the magic F9 key. Now click on Audio CD Browser and in a few seconds, you'll see a lot of folders which you can start browsing. If it's taking some time to show anything, it's because it's trying to fetch information about the CD from -the CDDB database you configured earlier. +the CDDB database you configured earlier. In the screenshot below, you can see the contents of the Ogg Vorbis folder. It shows all the songs in the Ogg format; it even shows their file @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ you open the Ogg Vorbis folder, you are actually seeing the contents of the CD as if it were stored in the Ogg format. You can go through the other folders and you'll find MP3, flac and wav representations of the CD's contents. You can even see the approximate file sizes when encoded in the -various formats. +various formats. So how do we rip and encode the CD? I think you can guess the answer @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ by now. Just decide which format you wish to rip to, open that folder, and copy and paste those files in your target folder. That's it! &tde; will start ripping and encoding the files on the fly! If you copy any of the files in the Full CD folder, you'll be ripping the entire CD as -one continuous stream. +one continuous stream. diff --git a/doc/userguide/playing-music.docbook b/doc/userguide/playing-music.docbook index 75a1e21eb..956bff22b 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/playing-music.docbook +++ b/doc/userguide/playing-music.docbook @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Music Players There are several &tde; music players with somewhat overlapping -feature sets, however, each is quite different in style. +feature sets, however, each is quite different in style. diff --git a/doc/userguide/standard-menu-entries.docbook b/doc/userguide/standard-menu-entries.docbook index c6c8f09ca..5e8a4efe5 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/standard-menu-entries.docbook +++ b/doc/userguide/standard-menu-entries.docbook @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ World! You use the Save As... menu entry to save the file with the new name -newhello.txt. +newhello.txt. You add the text Nice to see you! to diff --git a/doc/userguide/tde-as-root.docbook b/doc/userguide/tde-as-root.docbook index 510828c4e..ec866638f 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/tde-as-root.docbook +++ b/doc/userguide/tde-as-root.docbook @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Using &tde; as Root -For &UNIX; operating systems there are often different users, which in turn might have different privileges. The conventional method is to have an ordinary user account, whose files are generally stored in /home/username, and then to also have a root account. The root, or Super User, account has system-wide privileges, being able to modify any file on the system. +For &UNIX; operating systems there are often different users, which in turn might have different privileges. The conventional method is to have an ordinary user account, whose files are generally stored in /home/username, and then to also have a root account. The root, or Super User, account has system-wide privileges, being able to modify any file on the system. Although this means that it is easy to perform administrative tasks without hassle, it also means that there are no security restrictions imposed upon it. Thus, a small typographical error or other mistake can result in irrevocable damage. @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Some &Linux; distributions have tried to stress this point so much that they have disabled the root account altogether, and instead use the sudo model. Nevertheless, the basic security model in sudo is the same as su, and thus they share the same security strengths and weaknesses, essentially. -If you should ever need to run a program with Super User privileges, then it is always recommend that you use &tdesu;. From &konsole; or from hitting &Alt;F2, enter tdesu application, and the application will be run with the appropriate Super User privileges. +If you should ever need to run a program with Super User privileges, then it is always recommend that you use &tdesu;. From &konsole; or from hitting &Alt;F2, enter tdesu application, and the application will be run with the appropriate Super User privileges. Even if you have set up your system to use sudo, or you are on a distribution that uses sudo, such as &kubuntu;, you should still use &tdesu;. The program will be appropriately modified by the developers to use the correct settings. You should not, however, ever use sudo application to run an application with root permissions; it can derange permissions of certain configuration files for a program. Running a graphical applications as root in general is not a good idea, but using &tdesu; will always be your safest bet with it. diff --git a/doc/userguide/tde-edutainment.docbook b/doc/userguide/tde-edutainment.docbook index ff865921e..b3cbe8246 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/tde-edutainment.docbook +++ b/doc/userguide/tde-edutainment.docbook @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ their lessons with &keduca;. You can find a complete list of &tde; educational software on the TDE-Edu website. What follows is an overview of a few of them. -View the handbook of each application by typing help:/<appname> in &konqueror;'s Location Toolbar, or by selecting it in &khelpcenter;. +View the handbook of each application by typing help:/<appname> in &konqueror;'s Location Toolbar, or by selecting it in &khelpcenter;. Improve your language skills @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ website. What follows is an overview of a few of them. &kbruch; - An application with several exercise types in order to enhance your calculating with fractions. Different tasks include exercises to find the sum of two fractions, the conversion of fractions into the respective decimal, the comparison (with less than, more than) of fractions, and more. + An application with several exercise types in order to enhance your calculating with fractions. Different tasks include exercises to find the sum of two fractions, the conversion of fractions into the respective decimal, the comparison (with less than, more than) of fractions, and more. Website: http://edu.kde.org/kbruch @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ website. What follows is an overview of a few of them. &kig; - A great application with interactive geometry. Ideal for teachers attempting to draw a graph on the computer, or students who wish to find out more and investigate with graphs and curves. Currently many things are supported, and you can very easily construct several things from parabolas and hyperbolas, to ellipses. + A great application with interactive geometry. Ideal for teachers attempting to draw a graph on the computer, or students who wish to find out more and investigate with graphs and curves. Currently many things are supported, and you can very easily construct several things from parabolas and hyperbolas, to ellipses. Website: http://edu.kde.org/kig diff --git a/doc/userguide/tde-for-admins.docbook b/doc/userguide/tde-for-admins.docbook index c440c079c..691ae691d 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/tde-for-admins.docbook +++ b/doc/userguide/tde-for-admins.docbook @@ -2058,7 +2058,7 @@ url="http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/">http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/ -The Report Bug option from the +The Report Bug/Request Enhancement... option from the Help menu. diff --git a/doc/userguide/tde-office.docbook b/doc/userguide/tde-office.docbook index 035cbf714..7dc81802c 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/tde-office.docbook +++ b/doc/userguide/tde-office.docbook @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ actually use the OASIS OpenDocument file format. &kspread; - The spreadsheet component. &kspread; is a scriptable spreadsheet program which provides both table-oriented sheets and support for complex mathematical formulas and statistics. Features include Hyperlinks, cell data validity checking with configurable warnings/actions, scripting and specific cell customization. + The spreadsheet component. &kspread; is a scriptable spreadsheet program which provides both table-oriented sheets and support for complex mathematical formulas and statistics. Features include Hyperlinks, cell data validity checking with configurable warnings/actions, scripting and specific cell customization. Website: http://www.koffice.org/kspread/ @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ actually use the OASIS OpenDocument file format. &krita; - The painting and image manipulation component. &krita; contains both ease-of-use, fun features like guided painting, as well as high-end features like support for 16-bit images, CMYK and even OpenEXR HDR images. + The painting and image manipulation component. &krita; contains both ease-of-use, fun features like guided painting, as well as high-end features like support for 16-bit images, CMYK and even OpenEXR HDR images. Website: http://www.koffice.org/krita/ @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ actually use the OASIS OpenDocument file format. &kexi; - The data management component. It can be used for creating database schemas, inserting data, performing queries, and processing data. Forms can be created to provide a custom interface to your data. All database objects -- tables, queries and forms -- are stored in the database, making it easy to share data and database design. + The data management component. It can be used for creating database schemas, inserting data, performing queries, and processing data. Forms can be created to provide a custom interface to your data. All database objects -- mdash; tables, queries and forms -- mdash; are stored in the database, making it easy to share data and database design. Website: http://www.koffice.org/kexi/ and http://kexi-project.org. @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ actually use the OASIS OpenDocument file format. &kchart; - The chart drawing component; it is used to embed charts into one of the other &koffice; components. It's easy to use, highly customizable allowing all of the parameters to be changed, and has a flexible layout. + The chart drawing component; it is used to embed charts into one of the other &koffice; components. It's easy to use, highly customizable allowing all of the parameters to be changed, and has a flexible layout. Website: http://www.koffice.org/kchart/ diff --git a/doc/userguide/windows-how-to.docbook b/doc/userguide/windows-how-to.docbook index 1c72983e0..1652f9a58 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/windows-how-to.docbook +++ b/doc/userguide/windows-how-to.docbook @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ applications into your &tde; desktop. Other Special Window Settings -While you can use &kstart; to assign particular window settings, &tde; also allows you to alter these -- as well as other similar settings -- from the program window itself. Simply select the left-most button in the window titlebar (or just hit &Alt;F3 once the window is focued), and then go to AdvancedSpecial Window Settings.... As you can see, from here you change various things from its geometry upon startup, to whether it should have a border or not. +While you can use &kstart; to assign particular window settings, &tde; also allows you to alter these -- mdash; as well as other similar settings -- mdash; from the program window itself. Simply select the left-most button in the window titlebar (or just hit &Alt;F3 once the window is focued), and then go to AdvancedSpecial Window Settings.... As you can see, from here you change various things from its geometry upon startup, to whether it should have a border or not. @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ hints and will be updated if the icon changes. The window title is shown as a tooltip if you hold the mouse over the icon. ksystraycmd follows standard &tde; behaviour so the target window can be shown and hidden by clicking the -tray icon, and a standard context menu is available. +tray icon, and a standard context menu is available. -- cgit v1.2.1