8.2. KDE's Internal Help

Figure 8-2. KDE's Internal Help Window

Click on the life buoy to get KDE's internal, on-disk help. You can also launch it by accessing the K menu, then Documentation->Help.

 

The left side of the window holds the different available topics. In the example mentioned above, we clicked successively on Application menu, then Office, and lastly Presentations->KPresenter. The contents are shown in the right part of the window. In the text, the words in blue 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, use this arrow which allows to go back one or many steps:

8.2.1. Unix Info And Manual Pages

Figure 8-3. Accessing Unix Manual Pages Through The HelpCenter

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 source of information about system commands, its internal functions, configuration file formats... Click on this subject to browse the covered topics.

The info pages (right below in the Unix manual pages entry in the KDE HelpCenter) 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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