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Chapter�31.�The Standard Menu Entries
One of the main ways that you'll control programs in KDE is
via the program's menus. They provide access to nearly everything
you'll need to do with that program. So that you can more easily
remember where things are in the menus, and to help you learn new
programs more easily, the menus have a standard layout. This means
that once you know how to open a file in one program, you know how to
open a file in any KDE program. Let's take a look at the standard
menus:
The
Menu
-
(
Ctrl
+
N
)
-
This entry will start a new, blank document that's
appropriate to the program you're using. For example, in Kate (the
KDE Advanced Text Editor) this entry creates a new text file.
-
(
Ctrl
+
O
)
-
The
menu entry
displays the KDE “Open File” dialog box, where you can
choose a file to open in the program you're using. The “Open
File” dialog is also standardized, so it's the same for all
KDE programs. You can find out more about using this dialog
somewhere else in this guide .
You probably noticed that this menu entry had an ellipsis (...)
after the name of the entry. This means that clicking on the entry
will open a dialog box of some kind. If you make any changes in the
dialog box that appears, they won't take effect until you click on the
OK
button in the dialog. You can always ignore
any changes you made, and close the dialog, by clicking on the
Cancel
button.
-
(
Ctrl
+
S
)
-
This menu entry will save any changes you've made to
the file that you are currently working on. If this is the first time
that you've saved the file, the KDE “Save File” dialog
will appear, and ask you for a name and location for the file.
-
-
The
menu entry
will save the file you're working on with a different name. The
“Save File” dialog appears, and you can choose a name and
location as usual. Note that after you save the file with
, you will be working on the
new
file. If you save changes, they will be saved
under the new filename. To make this a bit clearer, let's take an
example:
-
You are working on a file called
hello.txt that contains the text “Hello
World!”
-
You use the
menu
entry to save the file with the new name
newhello.txt.
-
You add the text “Nice to see you!” to
the file, and use the
menu entry to
save these changes.
Now, the file newhello.txt contains the text
“Hello World! Nice to see you!”, while the file
hello.txt contains only the text “Hello
World!”.
-
(
Ctrl
+
P
)
-
This menu entry displays the KDE
“Print” dialog, read to print the current
document. Youcan find more information about the options available in
this dialog in the section called “Printing From Applications”.
-
(
Ctrl
+
W
)
-
This menu entry closes the current document. If you
have made any changes since you last saved the document, you will be
asked whether you want to save those changes. You can choose to
Save
or
Discard
those
changes. If you didn't really want to close the file, just click
Cancel
.
-
(
Ctrl
+
Q
)
-
Use this entry to close the program you're using. If
you have unsaved changes in any files, you will be asked whether you
want to
save them.
The
Menu
-
(
Ctrl
+
Z
)
-
Use this entry to remove the effect of the last
action you performed in the application. For example, if you deleted a
line of text, the
menu entry will
replace that line.
-
(
Ctrl
+
Shift
+
Z
)
-
Use this menu entry to perform the last action that
you removed with the
menu entry. For
example, if, as in the example above, you had replaced a deleted line
of text with
, the
entry would redo the action of
deleting the line.
-
(
Ctrl
+
X
)
-
This menu entry cuts the contents of the current
selection to the clipboard. See the section called “Using the Clipboard”
for more information.
-
(
Ctrl
+
C
)
-
This menu entry copies the contents of the current
selection to the clipboard. See the section called “Using the Clipboard”
for more information.
-
(
Ctrl
+
V
)
-
This menu entry inserts the contents of the clipboard
in the current document. The clipboard contents are inserted where the
cursor is currently positioned.
-
(
Ctrl
+
A
)
-
Use this item to select the whole of the current
document.
-
(
Ctrl
+
F
)
-
This menu entry displays the
Find
Text
dialog, which you can use to search for a particular
word or phrase in the current document.
-
(
F3
)
-
Use this item to find the next occurrence of the most
recent text you searched for using
.
-
->
(
F1
)
-
Invokes the KDE Help system starting at the
KApp
help pages. (this document).
-
->
(
Shift
+
F1
)
-
Changes the mouse cursor to a combination arrow and
question mark. Clicking on items within
KApp
will open a help
window (if one exists for the particular item) explaining the item's
function.
-
->
-
Opens the Bug report dialog where you can
report a bug or request a “wishlist” feature.
-
->
-
This will display version and author
information.
-
->
-
This displays the KDE version and other basic
information.
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