Browsing The Web With Konqueror - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - STEP BY STEP GUIDE Manual

Appendix A. KDE: The K Desktop Environment 123
You can navigate through the file system by clicking on folders within the main window frame or
through the hierarchical file system viewer on the navigation panel as shown in Figure A-8. Files and
folders in the main window frame can be moved or copied to another folder or sent to the trash. You
can also delete files and folders by right-clicking on the item and choosing Delete.
Konqueror also displays thumbnail icons for text, images, PostScript/PDF files, and Web files. It can
also preview sounds from digital audio files.
A.5.1. The Navigation Panel
Another useful feature of Konqueror is the navigation panel. This panel appears on the left side of
the Konqueror file browser window by default. The navigation panel makes many of your sytem
resources available to you in convenient tabbed icons. Figure A-9 shows the navigation panel.
Figure A-9. Working with the Navigation Panel
The navigation panel lets you access your Web bookmarks, browsing history, network resources, file
system, and has a built-in media player for playing multimedia files without having to open a separate
application. The navigation panel makes Konqueror an efficient solution for users who want fast and
easy access to all of their files and information.
A.6. Browsing the Web with Konqueror
Konqueror not only allows you to browse your local and network file system, but with component
technology used throughout KDE, Konqueror is also a full featured Web browser, which you can use
to explore the World Wide Web.
To launch Konqueror choose Main Menu => Internet => More Internet Applications => Kon-
queror Web Browser.