FYI, KDE.org will be releasing KDE 2.0 this september. The current release is KDE 1.1. In the fall I will be upgrading to either Mandrake 7.x or SuSE 7.x, which ever has the complete KDE 2.0 package and all auxillary apps on it.

SAM's Publishing has a book called "Learn KDE 1.1 in 24 hours".
ISBN 0-672-31608-0
I haven't checked recently, but I would imagine there are several books out available about KDE.

While KDE has extensive context sensitive html help scattered through out, I find this book very useful. It also includes a CD in the back with KDE 1.1 on it. The CD includes source code if you want to compile your own dynamic version, and it also has binaries for RH, SuSE, Caldera and others, so compiling isn't necessary. I used the RH RPM binary. Page 38 tells how to set up KDE so that it is fired through Xwindows rather than a command prompt appearing after loggin on.


>I will try switching to KDE.
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>>Gnome is nice. It is the favorite of the 'no commerical or propriatary software allowed' crowd. It is still incomplete and somewhat unstable, so don't be suprized if you suddenly find yourself at the command prompt after a segfault. It is a faster desktop than KDE, but KDE and software developed with the QT widget set approaches the kind of interconnectivity that windows has between its software. It certianly is nice to have a choice, though. In fact, if just firing programs from a desktop is all that one needs then fwm95 or the TclDesktop is all one needs. So many choices, so much fun!
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>>I've decided to go with KDE. The major reasons, besides the rock solid stability, are that the KDE.org is also developing KOffice, a GPL suite which they describe on their web site, and KDevelop, an awesome C++ GUI RAD development tool!. My pet project is to get an xbase widget set built that will add dataware controls that can be dragged and dropped onto a form. The way development is going I imagine that someone will beat me to it. The number of types of software, tools, etc., are literally exploding onto the Linux scene!