Yes! An exciting new feature in KDE 3.4 and greater is support for the new X composite extension. This allows for effects such as translucency and drop shadows for all windows, easily configurable through KWin's configuration dialog. This requires you to be using X.org version 6.8.0 or newer and have:

Section "Extensions"
Option  "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

In your xorg.conf. If you have an nvidia graphics card and use the nvidia driver you can improve the performance of these effects by also adding the RenderAccel option to the Device section for your graphics card:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "nvidia-fx5200"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    Option      "RenderAccel" "true"

Once you have configured X.org correctly, transparency and other effects can be enabled through the Desktop->Window Behavior KDE Control Center module, under the Translucency tab.

Use KMenuEdit. To access it use the right mouse button on the K button and select Menu Editor.

Yes, and it is none other than your favorite file manager, Konqueror. You can drag and drop remote files into local folders.

Simply click on the K button and select Logout. In addition, if you right click on an empty area of the desktop, you will be presented with a menu containing logout as one of the options.

KOrn will do the job. If you are not connected, it will just sit there (idling).

We recommend to always use the latest stable release. If you don't, it will probably be difficult to get answers to your questions. If you have a problem with an old version, the answer will probably be “Please upgrade and try again”. Note that new versions also sometimes fix security problems.

The simplest method is to use your mouse:

For more information about using the clipboard in KDE please see the Klipper hand book, accessed by typing help:/klipper into the Konqueror address bar.

Click on the K button and select System->Appfinder.

It stands for Subversion, and is a version control system. It is similar to CVS, but improves on it in many ways. It is used to maintain source code under development. It will keep multiple versions of things (handy if you broke something and have to back up and get a clean old version), and allows people remote access over the internet to pick up the latest source code and even to check in new files if they have permission. It is also open source (you pay for support if you want it), and since it is free it is the system of choice for people writing more free products, such as KDE.

Yes, you need to have a multi-headed X server (e.g. MetroX or XFree86 4.0 and above) and a KDE >= 2.2.1

Fire up the KDE Control Center. It comes up with an Info Screen including the version of KDE The KDE version is also included in the application's About dialog. You can also check from the command line with the command kde-config--version

Go see http://kde-artists.org. There is also a more informal community of KDE related artists and artwork at http://kde-look.org.

You might want to subscribe to the various KDE mailing lists available, especially kde-cvs, which lists all commits done to the KDE CVS repository. Check http://lists.kde.org if you want to read without subscribing.