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<sect1 id="getting-help">
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<title>Getting Help</title>
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<sect2 id="user-manuals">
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<title>User Manuals</title>
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<indexterm><primary>User Manual</primary></indexterm>
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<para>Most applications come with a user manual<indexterm><primary>User Manual</primary><secondary>Handbook
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</secondary></indexterm>, which can be reached in various ways:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>By pressing <keycap>F1</keycap> while inside the application.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>From the menu bar:
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Help</guimenu><guimenuitem><replaceable>Application name
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</replaceable></guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>By browsing in &khelpcenter;<indexterm><primary>&khelpcenter;</primary></indexterm>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>By using the help KIOslave in &konqueror;. For example, in the Location bar, type <userinput>help:/<replaceable>Application name</replaceable></userinput>, where <replaceable>Application name</replaceable> is the name of the application.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="context-help">
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<title>Context and <quote>What's This</quote> Help</title>
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<para>Many applications also provide context help in two forms:
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Tooltips and <quote>What's This</quote> help.</para>
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<sect3 id="tooltips">
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<title>Tooltips</title>
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<indexterm><primary>Tooltips</primary></indexterm>
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<para>Tooltips are small informational windows or balloons that appear when
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hovering the mouse pointer over an item.</para>
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<para>&tde; uses tooltips in many places to provide brief help or
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information on the screen about an item. For instance, most toolbar buttons
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inside applications will display their name in a tooltip when resting or hovering
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the mouse pointer over them.</para>
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<para>Tooltips have another function, which is not specifically tied to
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help. In the &konqueror; file manager and on the Desktop, tooltips can
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provide information about files. This information is commonly referred to as
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<quote>meta information.</quote></para>
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<para>Learn more about meta-information tooltips in the section
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about <link linkend="file-manager">the &konqueror; file manager</link>.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="whats-this-help">
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<title><quote>What's This?</quote></title>
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<indexterm><primary>What's This?</primary></indexterm>
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<para><quote>What's This?</quote> help usually is more detailed than tooltips.
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Access <quote>What's This?</quote> help in two ways:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>By selecting the <guibutton>?</guibutton> button in the titlebar of the
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window.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>By pressing the key combination
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<keycombo>&Shift;<keycap>F1</keycap></keycombo>.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>The mouse pointer will change to a pointer with a question mark.
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Select an item to learn more, and a small window will
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pop up displaying information.</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="mailing-lists-newsgroups-and-irc">
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<title>Mailing Lists, Newsgroups, and <acronym>IRC</acronym></title>
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<sect3 id="mailing-lists">
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<title>Mailing Lists</title>
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<indexterm><primary>Mailing Lists</primary></indexterm>
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<para>&tde-team; provides some mailing lists to provide help
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and guidance with using and configuring &tde;:</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>The &tde; User List
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<indexterm><primary>&tde; User Mailing List</primary></indexterm></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>This mailing list focuses specifically on questions
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and discussions about using &tde;. For example,
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the question <quote>How do I change the margin size for KWord
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documents</quote> is appropriate for this list.</para>
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<para>Subscribe to this list at <ulink
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url="http://www.trinitydesktop.org/mailinglist.php">http://www.trinitydesktop.org/mailinglist.php</ulink>.</para>
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<para>Find list archives at <ulink
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url="http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/">http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/</ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>IRC</title>
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<para>There is a #trinity channel on Freenode (irc.freenode.net) for support and other general talk about &tde;.
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Access this channel by using any of &tde;'s popular IRC clients, which include <application>Konversation</application>,
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&ksirc; and &kopete;. For more information, check the <xref linkend="irc"/> section.</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="more-resources">
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<title>More Resources</title>
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<para>Other resources that might prove useful:</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>trinitydesktop.org/rss.php (RSS Feed)
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<indexterm><primary>&tde; News Resource</primary></indexterm></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>The RSS feed news resource to stay informed about &tde;.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><ulink
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url="http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki">http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki</ulink>
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<indexterm><primary>The &tde; Wiki</primary></indexterm></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>The &tde; Wiki. The wiki should not be used as a substitute for the
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respective application's handbook or official &tde; documentation.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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