<chapter id="introduction"> <title>Introduction</title> <para>Welcome to the K Desktop Environment User Guide.</para> <para>This book is intended to be an introduction to the K Desktop Environment as a whole, with a broad description of the user interface, some practical examples on how to use &kde; for daily work, and some hints on how to customize the &kde; desktop.</para> <para>Included is a table of shortcuts, and some tips and tricks intended to help you find your way around quickly and efficiently.</para> <para>This book is not a guide to the use of the individual applications, as they each have their own User Manual. However, &kde; is an integrated environment — what you learn in this manual and in your own exploration of &kde;'s interface is consistent and readily transferable between &kde; applications.</para> <para>This book also explores some of the philosophy behind &kde; and some of its history, and rounds out with how to find more information, should you need it.</para> </chapter> <!-- Local Variables: mode: sgml sgml-omittag:nil sgml-shorttag:t sgml-namecase-general:t sgml-general-insert-case:lower sgml-minimize-attributes:nil sgml-always-quote-attributes:t sgml-indent-step:0 sgml-indent-data:nil sgml-parent-document:("index.docbook" "book" "chapter") End: -->