On your desktop's background sit a series of icons which give you access to your personal and system files. Here's a quick overview:
Table 4.1. KDE Desktop Icons
Organizing and looking for your personal and system files can be done in many ways. Here are two of them.
Click on this icon on
your desktop to access your personal files. With this file
manager (called Konqueror) you can copy, move and delete
your files, organize them by topic, and more. From
Konqueror's sidebar (located on the left) you can access
your audio player (Section 1, “Audio Applications”), your
bookmarks (Section 2, “Browsing the Web”), your
browser's history, the root folder (which contains the system and
configuration files), as well as services (your printing
system, your external storage media, etc.).
This utility sits at
the bottom right of your panel and is used to look for files on
your system. Right-click on it and click on
Configure Kat.
Click on to configure a folder
in which Kat will look and index all
files. Typically you would choose your
/home/user_name
folder to index all your
personal files. Once this is done click on the
button to start indexing. Click on
the Kat icon to check its status.