The User Guide is not intended to be a replacement for the application manuals. You should turn to the handbook for help with specific program configuration and troubleshooting issues not covered in this book. If the answer is outside the scope of this book, we will tell you here precisely where to look for further help.

You may also have a variety of third party packages, and some of these applications are mentioned briefly here, but we normally cover only the applications provided as part of a KDE release. This is not a judgment on the value of third party applications, and in fact many of them are excellent.

The User Guide is not specific to a distribution, and covers a default KDE installation. Your local installation may be customized by your distribution provider, or by yourself, and so our advice here is generic. You may have to adjust paths in order to locate the files that are discussed.