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@@ -16,20 +16,18 @@ Management</secondary></indexterm>
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>&tde; includes a versatile and powerful file manager called
-&konqueror; which allows you to do everything you want with the files
+&konqueror; that allows you to do everything you want with the files
stored on your computer, your network, and even the Internet. There
are too many features of &konqueror; to describe here, so we will just
-take an overview. If you want more details about what &konqueror; can
-do, take a look at the &konqueror; Handbook<indexterm><primary>&konqueror;</primary><secondary>Handbook</secondary></indexterm> by selecting
-<menuchoice><guimenu>Help</guimenu><guimenuitem>Konqueror
-Handbook</guimenuitem></menuchoice> in the &konqueror; menus; or, alternatively, you can use the help KIOslave in &konqueror; by entering <userinput>help:/konqueror</userinput> in the Location Toolbar.</para>
+take an overview. For more details about what &konqueror; can
+do, refer to the <ulink url="help:/konqueror">&konqueror; Handbook</ulink>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="folder-structure">
<title>Folders</title>
<para>When you first open &konqueror; in file management mode, you can
-see two panes: on the right is the folder view; on the left is the
+see two panes: on the right is the folder view; on the left is the
sidebar. The folder view contains icons for
each item inside the current folder. These items can be
folders or files. Many file types can be <quote>previewed</quote>
@@ -38,15 +36,14 @@ hold the mouse cursor over the name of the file for about a second: a
popup window will appear, showing the contents of the file and other some
useful information, like file's size and which user owns the file.</para>
-<para>You can open any item by clicking (just once &ndash; &tde;
-does not use double-clicking in its default settings) on the icon for the
+<para>You can open any item by clicking on the icon for the
file. Folders will be opened in the same window; files will either be
opened in the appropriate program, or the file manager will ask you
what program to use. For instance, if do not have a word-processor set up to
open &Microsoft; Word documents, the file manager will
ask you what to do.</para>
-<para>You can go back to the last-opened folder by clicking on the
+<para>You can go back to the last-opened folder by clicking on the
<guiicon>Back</guiicon><!--screenie --> button or go up one folder by clicking
the <guiicon>Up</guiicon><!--screenie --> button.</para>
</sect2>
@@ -69,8 +66,8 @@ the folder view can become impractical. The sidebar provides
shortcuts and special functions that make it easier to
find what you are searching for.</para>
-<para>On the left edge of the sidebar you will find a number of buttons, each
- with a different icon:</para>
+<para>On the left edge of the sidebar be several buttons, each
+ with a different icon, such as the following:</para>
<!-- TODO: Add screenies of what each of these buttons looks like -->
<variablelist>
@@ -79,8 +76,8 @@ find what you are searching for.</para>
<term><guilabel>Bookmarks</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
-<para>As &konqueror; (the file manager) also serves as a very powerful
-web browser, it also has a bookmark functionality. Here you will find the
+<para>As &konqueror; (the file manager) also serves as a very powerful
+web browser, it also has a bookmark functionality. Here you will find the
same structure as in your <guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu> menu.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -91,7 +88,7 @@ same structure as in your <guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu> menu.</para>
<listitem>
<para>Next the sidebar provides a list of all known devices
on your computer. These devices can be either physical drives &mdash;
-such as your hard disk, &CD-ROM; drive, or floppy disk drive &mdash;
+such as your hard disk, &CD-ROM; drive, or floppy disk drive &mdash;
or virtual <quote>drives</quote> &mdash; such as remote shares or hard disk partitions.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -100,16 +97,16 @@ or virtual <quote>drives</quote> &mdash; such as remote shares or hard disk part
<term><guilabel>History</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
-<para>&konqueror; will remember the web pages you have visited and list them
-either by date or alphabetically in a tree structure. You can select the
-behavior by right clicking on the <guilabel>History</guilabel> item and
-selecting <guimenu>Sort by</guimenu>. Left click on an item (&eg;
-<guilabel>www.kde.org</guilabel>) and &konqueror; will show you the documents you have visited. Left
-clicking on a document (&eg; <guilabel>index.html</guilabel>) will open
+<para>&konqueror; will remember the web pages you have visited and list them
+either by date or alphabetically in a tree structure. You can select the
+behavior by right clicking on the <guilabel>History</guilabel> item and
+selecting <guimenu>Sort by</guimenu>. Left click on an item (&eg;
+<guilabel>www.kde.org</guilabel>) and &konqueror; will show you the documents you have visited. Left
+clicking on a document (&eg; <guilabel>index.html</guilabel>) will open
the web site in the folder view.</para>
<para>Right clicking on a history item, like <menuchoice><guimenu>www.kde.org</guimenu><guimenuitem>index.html</guimenuitem>
-</menuchoice>, opens a slightly different popup menu: you will also find the
-item <guimenuitem>New Window</guimenuitem>, which makes &konqueror; open the
+</menuchoice>, opens a slightly different popup menu: you will also find the
+item <guimenuitem>New Window</guimenuitem>, which makes &konqueror; open the
site in a new window.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -118,10 +115,10 @@ site in a new window.</para>
<term><guilabel>Home Directory</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
-<para>The <guilabel>Home Directory</guilabel> item is in the sidebar's navigation
-panel. You will find your home directory as the first entry. Below you will
-find all folders of your home directory. Left clicking on any
-folder in this view opens the folder in the folder view. Alternatively, you can also
+<para>The <guilabel>Home Directory</guilabel> item is in the sidebar's navigation
+panel. You will find your home directory as the first entry. Below you will
+find all folders of your home directory. Left clicking on any
+folder in this view opens the folder in the folder view. Alternatively, you can also
work with the folders' context menus, create subfolders, and so on.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -142,9 +139,9 @@ on the sidebar. The file will immediately be played.</para>
<term><guilabel>Newsticker</guilabel></term>
<!-- I don't have this button. Ought to check what it depends on -->
<listitem>
-<para>Newsticker will display a customisable list of news sources. Right-click
-either on the <guilabel>Configure button</guilabel> or on one of the
-newssource buttons (e.g. TDE News, which is usually predefined) to add a new
+<para>Newsticker will display a customisable list of news sources. Right-click
+either on the <guilabel>Configure button</guilabel> or on one of the
+newssource buttons (e.g. TDE News, which is usually predefined) to add a new
newsticker source.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -220,10 +217,10 @@ type of files selected, so it is called a <quote>context menu</quote>).</para>
<title>Links and Shortcuts</title>
<para>
-As already mentioned above you can link files or folders anywhere. It means
-that the linked folder will appear and behave just like the original in
+As already mentioned above you can link files or folders anywhere. It means
+that the linked folder will appear and behave just like the original in
another location without consuming additional space on your harddrive.
-So if you, for example, have a number of documents, and only a few are used
+So if you, for example, have a number of documents, and only a few are used
regularly, you can easily group them in a folder and create links in it.
</para>
@@ -246,18 +243,15 @@ deleted permanently.</para>
<!-- Add links to "further reading" here -->
<itemizedlist>
-<title>Related Information</title>
+<title>Related Information</title>
-<listitem><para>As mentioned in the introduction, the &konqueror;
-Handbook has much more information about the features available in
-&konqueror;. You can read it in &khelpcenter; or by entering
-<userinput>help:/konqueror</userinput> in &konqueror;'s
-<guilabel>Location</guilabel> bar.</para>
+<listitem><para>The <ulink url="help:/konqueror">&konqueror; Handbook</ulink>
+has much more information about the features available in
+&konqueror;.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
-
</sect2>
</sect1>