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diff --git a/doc/konqueror/basics.docbook b/doc/konqueror/basics.docbook new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8940df621 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/konqueror/basics.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,386 @@ +<chapter id="basics"> + +<chapterinfo> +<authorgroup> +<author>&Pamela.Roberts;</author> +<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> +</authorgroup> + +<date>2003-10-20</date> +<releaseinfo>3.2</releaseinfo> +</chapterinfo> + +<title>&konqueror; Basics</title> + +<important><para>Like all &kde; applications, &konqueror; is highly + configurable. This document describes how &konqueror; behaves with the normal, + default settings.</para> +<para> A three button mouse can be useful when you are running +&konqueror; or any other &kde; application. If your mouse only has two buttons +then you should be able to set your system up so that you can simulate a &MMB; +by pressing both buttons at the same time.</para> +<para>You can read more about mouse usage in <xref +linkend="lmb-mmb"/></para> +<para>If you are used to having to double-click to perform an action, +then take care, because in common with the rest of &kde;, &konqueror; defaults +to single-clicking.</para></important> + +<sect1 id="konq-start"> +<title>Starting &konqueror;</title> + +<para>Being a combined File Manager and Browser, +&konqueror; will automatically +switch between the two modes as needed when it is running, but it is convenient +to be able to choose which mode is to be used when you start it up.</para> + +<itemizedlist> +<listitem><para>If you have a <guiicon>house</guiicon> shaped icon on the panel +or desktop, then <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click on it to open +&konqueror; as a file manager.</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>Or <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click on <guiicon>world +</guiicon> shaped icon on the panel or desktop to open &konqueror; in browser +mode.</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>From the <guimenu>K</guimenu> menu, select +<menuchoice><guisubmenu>Internet</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Konqueror Web +Browser</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to start it as a browser, or +<guimenuitem>Home</guimenuitem> to launch &konqueror; in file manager mode. +</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para><keycombo action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo> +will open a <guilabel>Run Command</guilabel> dialog box, type +<userinput><command>konqueror</command></userinput> (lower case) and press +<keycap>Enter</keycap> or the <guibutton>Run</guibutton> button to start in +file +manager mode, or just enter a &URL; such as + <userinput>http://www.konqueror.org</userinput> to start &konqueror; as a +browser.</para></listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +<para>&konqueror; is also started automatically when you +<mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click on a desktop icon that represents a +folder, such as a hard disk drive or the <guiicon>Trash</guiicon> icon. +</para> + + +</sect1> + +<sect1 id="parts"> +<title>The Parts of &konqueror;</title> + +<para>A brief look at the main parts of &konqueror;'s window:</para> + +<mediaobject> +<imageobject><imagedata format="PNG" fileref="parts.png"/></imageobject> +<textobject> +<phrase>Here's a screenshot of &konqueror;</phrase> +</textobject> +</mediaobject> + +<para>The <interface>Titlebar</interface> is the strip across the top of +&konqueror;'s window, and operates in the same way as for other &kde; +applications. <mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> click on the central portion to +bring up the neat Titlebar menu.</para> + +<para>The <interface>Menubar</interface> is the strip containing the names of +the drop-down menus. <mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on a name to +alternately show and hide that menu, or use <keycombo +action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>the underlined +letter</keycap></keycombo> in the name as a hot key, for example <keycombo +action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>E</keycap></keycombo> to show the +<guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu. The various menus are described in the <link +linkend="menubar">Menubar</link> section of this document.</para> + +<para>The <interface>Toolbar</interface> contains icons for commonly used +operations. <mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> clicking on an icon will activate +it. If you have enabled tooltips in the Control Center <menuchoice><guimenu> +Appearance & +Themes</guimenu><guisubmenu>Style</guisubmenu></menuchoice> +dialog a brief description of what that icon does will appear when you hover +the pointer over it.</para> + +<para>Some icons, for example the Up and Back icons in the previous screenshot, +have a small black triangle at their bottom right corner. If you hold the &LMB; +pressed while the cursor is over this type of icon a small dropdown menu will +appear.</para> <para><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> clicking on the +<interface>Toolbar </interface> will bring up the <link +linkend="rmb-menus"><guilabel>Toolbar Menu</guilabel></link> which you can use +to change the <interface>Toolbar</interface>'s appearance and position.</para> + +<para>The <interface>Location Toolbar</interface> shows the path to the +directory, &URL; or file being viewed. You can type a path or &URL; here and +press &Enter; or <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click on the +<guiicon>Go</guiicon> icon at the right hand end of the <interface>Location +Toolbar</interface> to go to it. The black icon at the left hand end of the +<interface>Location Toolbar</interface> clears the text entry box.</para> + +<para>The <interface>Bookmark Toolbar</interface> is the area under the +<interface>Location Toolbar</interface> in the previous screenshot. You can add +frequently used bookmarks here; see the <link +linkend="orgbmark">Organizing +Your +Bookmarks</link> section of this document.</para> + +<para>The <interface>Window</interface> is the main area of &konqueror; and +can show you the contents of a directory, web page, document or image. Using +the <link linkend="menu-window"><guimenu>Window</guimenu></link> menu you can +split &konqueror;'s main window into one or more separate views, useful for +drag and drop operations, or set it to contain two or more tabbed views. +</para> + +<para>The <interface>Status Bar</interface> runs across the bottom of the +&konqueror;'s window +and often shows general information about whatever the mouse pointer is +hovering +over. If you have split the main window into a number of views you will get an +Status Bar for each view, and it will include a small green light at the left +hand end to show which is the <quote>active</quote> +view. <mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> clicking on the Status Bar brings up the +Status Bar <link linkend="rmb-menus"><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> Mouse +Button Menu</link>.</para> + +<note><para>Don't worry if your &konqueror; doesn't look exactly like this +screenshot; it is highly configurable. In particular:</para> + +<itemizedlist> +<listitem><para>You can use the <link +linkend="menu-settings"><guimenu>Settings</guimenu></link> menu to choose +whether to show or hide the Menubar, Main Toolbar, Location Toolbar and +Bookmark Toolbar, or even to add an Extra Toolbar.</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>You can also <quote>flatten</quote> the toolbars by +<mousebutton>left</mousebutton> clicking on the vertical lines at the left hand end +of the bars, or move them around by holding the &LMB; down while you +drag these bars around. </para></listitem> +<listitem><para>This screenshot does not show the optional <link linkend="sidebar"> +Navigation Panel</link>.</para></listitem> +</itemizedlist> + +<para>For more details of how to change &konqueror;'s appearance, see the <link +linkend="config">Configuring &konqueror;</link> section</para></note> + +</sect1> + +<sect1 id="bubble"> +<title>Tooltips and What's This?</title> + +<para>You can find out a lot about how &konqueror; works without needing to +read +this entire document if you take advantage of <guilabel>Tooltips</guilabel> and + the +<guimenuitem>What's This?</guimenuitem> feature.</para> + +<para>If <guilabel>Tooltips</guilabel> have been enabled in &kde; (K menu + <menuchoice><guimenu>Control Center</guimenu><guisubmenu>Appearance & + Themes</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>Style</guisubmenu></menuchoice>, + <guilabel>Style</guilabel> dialog) then when you hover the mouse pointer + over a Toolbar or Navigation Panel +button it should bring up a terse description of what that button does.</para> + +<para><guimenuitem>What's This?</guimenuitem> is invoked by the Menubar +<menuchoice><guimenu>Help</guimenu><guimenuitem>What's This?</guimenuitem></menuchoice> item, by +<keycombo action="simul">&Shift;<keycap>F1</keycap></keycombo>, or by +just &LMB; clicking on the question mark near the top right hand corner of +&konqueror;'s window. It changes the cursor to show a question mark alongside +the arrow.</para> + +<para>When this question mark is visible, a &LMB; click won't actually do +anything until you have clicked on a control (or the text alongside it) that +supports <guimenuitem>What's This?</guimenuitem>, in which case it will +display +a reasonably comprehensive description of what the control is supposed to do. +Most of the dialog boxes that &konqueror; brings up support the +<guimenuitem>What's This?</guimenuitem> feature.</para> + +</sect1> + +<sect1 id="lmb-mmb"> +<title><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> and <mousebutton>Middle</mousebutton> +Mouse Button Actions</title> + +<para>If you click the &LMB; on an item in &konqueror;'s window, it will + be +<quote>activated</quote>. Thus</para> + +<itemizedlist> + +<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on an icon in the Toolbar +to do whatever that icon is supposed to do. </para></listitem> +<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on an item in the Menubar +to make that menu drop down.</para></listitem> +<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on a menu item to do that +thing.</para></listitem> +<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on an icon in the +Bookmark + Toolbar +to open that &URL;.</para></listitem> +<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on a link in a web page +to make &konqueror; follow that link.</para></listitem> +<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on a folder icon or +name and &konqueror; will descend into (show the contents of) that folder. +</para></listitem> +<listitem><para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on a file name or icon +and &konqueror; will do whatever it thinks appropriate, based on the file type. +In general this means opening <acronym>HTML</acronym> pages, or previewing +text, image or +<application>KOffice</application> files, showing them within &konqueror;'s +window (<quote>Preview</quote> means that you can see the file but not change +it).</para> + +<para>&konqueror; decides what the file type is by matching the filename +extension against a list of known types. If that fails it tries to guess +the type from the file contents. You can change the list of known file types +and associated actions with the <guilabel>File Associations</guilabel> page of +the <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure Konqueror... +</guimenuitem></menuchoice> dialog.</para></listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +<para>Clicking the &MMB; on a file or folder name or icon does essentially the +same as <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> clicking except that it usually does it +in a new &konqueror; window, unless the <guilabel>Open links in new tab instead +of in new window</guilabel> box has been checked in the +<guimenuitem>Behavior</guimenuitem> page of the +<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure + +Konqueror...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> dialog. &konqueror; can open +links on pages and <menuchoice><guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu></menuchoice>, +as well as the +<guibutton>Home</guibutton>, <guibutton>Up</guibutton>, +<guibutton>Back</guibutton> and <guibutton>Forward</guibutton> +entries in a new tab or window.</para> + +<para>Holding the &Shift; key down while pressing the &MMB; will open the link +in the background.</para> +<important><para>If you click the &MMB; when the mouse cursor is over a blank +part of the main view (not over a link or file name or icon) &konqueror; will +copy the contents of the clipboard into the Location Toolbar and try to use +that as a &URL;.</para></important> +</sect1> + +<sect1 id="rmb-menus"> +<title><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> Mouse Button Menus</title> + +<para>Clicking the &RMB; on almost any part of &konqueror;'s window +will bring up an appropriate context menu.</para> + +<note><para>If you have enabled the <guilabel>Right click goes back in +history</guilabel> option in &konqueror;'s <link linkend="othersettings"> +configuration</link> settings a +simple <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click is equivalent to clicking on the +<guibutton>Back</guibutton> button. In this case you can access the context +menu by moving the mouse with the <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> button held +down.</para></note> + +<variablelist> + +<varlistentry> +<term>On the Titlebar</term> +<listitem><para><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> clicking on any free area of +the Titlebar brings up the Titlebar Menu, allowing you to control the position +of &konqueror;'s window as well as the decoration applied to all &kde; program +windows. </para></listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry> +<term>On the Main Toolbar</term> +<listitem><para><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> click on any free area of the +Toolbar to bring up the Toolbar Menu. You can use it to control whether the +Toolbar is at the top, bottom, left or right of &konqueror;'s window. +You can also use the Toolbar Menu to set the size of the buttons on the +Toolbar, +and whether they are shown as icons, text or both.</para></listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry> +<term>On the Location Toolbar</term> +<listitem><para><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> click in the + &URL; +entry box area to perform Cut, Copy, Paste or Clear operations in this area, or +to change the automatic <link linkend="path-complete">Text Completion</link> +features.</para></listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry> +<term>On the Bookmark Toolbar</term> +<listitem><para> If you have the Bookmark Toolbar showing, then +<mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click on any free part of it to bring up the +Bookmark Toolbar Menu which lets you change its position and whether items are +shown as text, icons, or both. </para></listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry> +<term>Within a View</term> +<listitem><para>If you <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click on any free area +of a view then you will get a menu that contains, among other options, the + <guiicon>Up</guiicon>, +<guiicon>Back</guiicon>, <guiicon>Forward</guiicon> and +<guiicon>Reload</guiicon> navigation commands. + </para></listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry> +<term>On a File or Folder</term> +<listitem><para>This is a most useful feature. <mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> +clicking on the name or icon of any file or folder not only +<quote>selects</quote> that item but also brings up a menu allowing you to +<guiicon>Cut</guiicon>, Move, <guiicon>Copy</guiicon> or Remove the item in +various +ways, add it to your <guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu>, open it with the program of +your choice or preview it, rename it, or edit the file type or +properties.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> + +<varlistentry> +<term>On the Status Bar</term> +<listitem><para><mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> click on the Status Bar at the +bottom of a window or view to add or remove a view within &konqueror;'s +window.</para></listitem> +</varlistentry> +</variablelist> + +</sect1> + +<sect1 id="man-info"> +<title>Viewing Help, Man and Info Pages</title> + +<para>You can view &kde; Help and &UNIX; Man and Info pages directly in +&konqueror;, without having to start up <application>KHelpCenter</application>. +</para> + +<para>To view a &kde; Help page, enter +<userinput>help:/<replaceable>application name</replaceable></userinput> (for +example <userinput>help:/kmail</userinput> to view the &kmail; documentation.) +into &konqueror;'s Location Toolbar window. +</para> + +<para> +If you want to read &UNIX; Man pages &konqueror; makes it easy. For +example type <userinput>man:/touch</userinput> or +<userinput>#touch</userinput> into the Location Toolbar to see the page for +the <command>touch</command> command.</para> + +<para>To browse through &UNIX; Info pages, entering +<userinput>info:/dir</userinput> takes you to Info's top level directory, then +it's just a matter of clicking on the right links to find the page you +want. Alternatively, use <userinput>info:/<replaceable>command +name</replaceable></userinput> to go straight to the Info page you want.</para> + +<note><para>Unfortunately, &kde; Help pages are stored in such a way that they +cannot be viewed in other browsers. If you really need to do this your only +recourse is to go online and visit <ulink url="http://docs.kde.org"> +http://docs.kde.org</ulink>.</para></note> +</sect1> + +</chapter> + +<!-- +Local Variables: +mode: sgml +sgml-omittag: nil +sgml-shorttag: t +sgml-minimize-attributes: nil +sgml-general-insert-case: lower +sgml-parent-document:("index.docbook" "book" "chapter") +End: +--> |