9.2. KDE's Internal Help

Figure 9-2. KDE's Internal Help Window

Click on the lifebuoy to get the KDE's internal, on-line help. You can also launch it by accessing the K menu, then successively Documentation->Help. It is a complete help center, very helpful when you need information.

The left side of the window holds the different available rubrics. In the example mentioned above, we clicked successively on Application menu, then Office, and lastly KPresenter. The contents are shown on the right of the window. In the text, the words in red are hyperlinks. Simply click on one of them to move to another part of the document. Since it is easy to get lost using this process, the arrow allows to go back one or many steps.

9.2.1. Unix's Info and Manual Pages

These two categories are not KDE-specific. They exist on practically every Unix-type systems. The manual pages (commonly referred to as man pages) are the historical and internal help pages under Unix, and are provided with those systems almost since they were conceived. They are an inexhaustible information source about system commands, its internal functions, configuration file formats... Click on this rubric to browse the covered topics.

The info pages hold almost the same thing, but their presentation is different. They were developed within the GNU project's framework in order to compensate for some of the man pages weaknesses.


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