KDE

Desktop Theme

Baghira

• Baghira offers a very good QT/KDE theme imitating Apple OSX look.
• On SuSE, just install package through YaST (packman or Guru repositories)
• To activate:
  • Configure Desktop - Personal Settings → Appearance & Theme → Style → select Baghira.
  • Configure Desktop - Personal Settings → Appearance & Theme → Window Decoration → select Baghira.

Mouse Icon theme

• To install, simply extract archive folder in ~/.icons (eg. ~/.icons/Shere Khan X/.
• Select theme through Configure Desktop - Personal Settings → Peripheral → Mouse → Cursor Theme.

Shere Khan X

• Best OSX-like icon theme.

Jaguar X

• Another good OSX-like icon theme.

Window Shadows

• To enable window shadows, right-click on window title bar → Configure Window Behavior → Translucency → panel Shadows.

Amarok

• xine-lib/1.1.14-1 has a bug that makes Amarok to freeze frequently when changing track. (see bug). Bug is solved in xine-lib/1.1.14-2.
• Still some problems with crossfading. It introduces jerky feedback. Around track changes, CPU goes up to 100%. However jerkiness is not always around track change...
• Recent versions of Amarok requires to install package kubuntu-restricted-extras or Amarok will not play mp3 files.
• Proxy settings — Edit file ~/.kde/share/config/kioslaverc as follows (also works within Gnome, see [1]):

[Proxy Settings][$i]
ProxyType=1
httpProxy=http://username:password@proxyserver:port/
httpsProxy=http://username:password@proxyserver:port/
ftpProxy=http://username:password@proxyserver:port/

• Keyboard shortcuts — Amarok shortcuts shall work if the Gnome shortcuts for media keys like Play, Pause... are disabled.

Konqueror

• Check the Wikipedia page on Konqueror for handy information!

KIO

• KIO (KDE Input/Output [2]) are plugins in the Konqueror architecture that extends its capabilities well beyond those of other browsers and file managers.
• Information on KIO in Konqueror can be obtained from KDE KinfoCenter (manual here). It can be launched with the command kinfocenter. Check the Protocols section.
• Useful KIOs:

fish

Allows you to access another computer's files using the SEcure Shell (SSH) protocol. fish is supposedly faster than sftp.

Syntax is fish://username@server/folder.

sftp

SFTP is a Secure file transfer protocol. sftp is an interactive file transfer program, similar to ftp, but it performs all operations over an encrypted ssh transport.

Syntax is sftp://username@server/folder.

smb

The smb ioslave enables you to browse the shares of a Windows® (or Samba) network. It requires libsmbclient.

Syntax is smb://a_workgroup, to list the hosts in a workgroup.

Syntax is smb://the_host or smb:/a_workgroup/the_host to see the shares of a host.

Syntax is smb://the_host/the_share or smb:/a_workgroup/the_host/the_share to access a share directly.

man

Using the man ioslave you are able to read the man pages installed on your system.

K3b

• To enable MP3 support, install MAD MP3 decoding library and K3b MAD MP3 decoder plugin.