[Wylug-discuss] KDE

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 02 Jan 2006 17:25, Smylers wrote:
>
> Also, I'd be very interested in actually seeing a demonstration of
> these kind of things.  Is there a KDE power user on this list who'd
> be prepared to do a show and tell at a feature Wylug meeting?
>
KDE is so big and so powerful that I seriously doubt if anyone here can 
do justice to all of it.  Perhaps it would be possible for someone to 
produce a laptop with a recent kde installed, for a collaborative demo?

For myself, the two things that I most appreciate are

The ability to read a man page within konqueror - it's not only easier 
on the eyes, but can be printed in a very readable form.

The immense flexibility of kprinter.  I have one printer which serves 
three fixed boxes on the lan and a couple of laptops.  I habitually 
redirect printing from browser pages and many other sources to 
kprinter, for a couple of reasons.

My one printer is set up as four instances, for instant access to 
differing profiles and in kprinter I can easily swap between them, but 
the really neat thing I only discovered a few months ago.  If you get 
the kprinter dialogue box, then look at the printer Properties button, 
the right-most tab is for filters.  There you will find a drop-down 
list of filters for some really useful print jobs.  Absolutely anything 
can be printed in properly formatted booklet format, giving an A5 
booklet from A4 sheets.

Anne
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