In this section will be briefly described KUninstaller user interface.
The KUninstaller window separated in four areas: toolbar, search applications dialog, viewing area and statusbar.
Additionaly two seperate dialogs are available: the Configurations dialog and the Application selection dialog.
Prints a list of all application parts
Searches for application parts
Stops running search process.
Uninstalls the application and if desired a backup will be made.
Clears results.
Undos the last removing of an application if this function is desired.
Shows Configuration of the application.
Deletes all application backups.
Shows KUninstaller documentation.
Exits KUninstaller.
In this Area you can specify one or more applications for uninstalling or you can select a KDE application out of the list by pressing the KDE application button.
In this Area you can choose from a list of application backups. You can delete or install the selected one.
The viewing area contains results of finding process. For every application there are of several trees: the Installation Tree, the Locale KDE Tree and optional a userdefinable Directory Tree with all there application parts.
On the right hand the filesize of each file will be displayed. For Directories the sum of it will be displayed. Under the Viewing Area the number of selected elements and the sum size of it will be shown.
Each application part can be selected for uninstallation or set to unselected. If it is a directory, you can go into it via double clicking on the icon.
A popup menue is also available with the right mouse button. The following operations can be executed:
Expands the directory if it is closed, and shows the child items
Collapse the directory if it is opened, and hides the child items
Check the item if is unchecked
Uncheck the item if is checked
Uncheck all items
Check all items
With the Configurations dialog you can set some configurations for the application.
You can choose if a backup should be created before uninstalling of applications. If this is checked the undo button is selectable.
Further you can choose the directory, in which the backups will be stored.
Thats all for this release.
The Application selection dialog lists all found KDE applications with its name and icon and a short comment. You can select one ore more applications for uninstalling with clicking on it.
The applications are grouped as it is in the menue of the KPanel. So it should be easy to find the appropriate application.
If your application is not in the list, and you don't know the exact name you can select it with the FileDialog (right button).