This Guide gives a Introduction to Plasma Active. Plasma Active 4 is based on Balsam Professional-Version 12.1. Please read that parts to get Informations how to install, use and enjoy Plasma Active.
Gives an Overview about Getting, Installation and Handling of Plasma Active 4.
This part guides you through the Installationprocess of Plasma Active under Balsam Professional.
Gives an overview about Options to get help and more Dokumentation, if you need more Informations or use your system for specific cases. This part contains the most common Problems and you learn how to fix it.
Newer Updates in Documentation (this Book) you can find there https://sourceforge.net/p/pactivehandbook/.
For giving Feedback you have some different channels:
You can post every Bug or Feature for Plasma Active into the KDE Bugzilla on http://bugs.kde.org.
To discuss with other users or ask questions please visit the forum: http://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=211
Also you can speak with the developers of Plasma Active through that mailinglist: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active.
We're happy to read your Ideas and Proposals to this Book. Just visit http://sourceforge.net/p/pactivehandbook/tickets/.
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In this book we're using that typographic conventions:
/etc/passwd: Directories and Filenames
Placeholder: Replace Placeholder with the
real value.
PATH: the variable PATH
ls, --help: Commands, Options and Parameters
User: User or Groups
Alt, Alt+F1: A key or keycombo of keyboard keys
, +: Menuoptions and Buttons
Dancing Pinguins (Chapter Pinguins, ↑Other Handbook): This is a referer to a chapter of another book.
This Handbook was written in Docbook 4.5 (see http://www.docbook.org). The XML Sourcefiles was validated with xmllint , processed by xsltproc and with a customized version of Norman Walsh's Stylesheets into XSL-FO converted. The Build-Tool daps is provided in the openSUSE Repositories.
The Sourcecode of this book is public available. To download the Code you need a installed svn client on your pc.
You can browse the code there: https://sourceforge.net/p/pactivehandbook/code/. If you want to participate in this project just write a email with your Sourceforge Username to: Sascha.Manns@open-slx.de.
With a lot of voluntary commitment, the developers of Plasma Active cooperate on a global scale to promote the development of Plasma Active. We thank them for their efforts—this wonderful UI would not exist without them. Furthermore, we thank Thomas Schraitle for his help with Docbook and XSLT. Special thanks, of course, goes to Linus Torvalds. This book was member of the Google CodeIn 2012. We like to thank our student Casey Takahashi. Without her help i can't publish this book now.
Enjoy it
Your Sascha Manns