

When you start the control center, you are presented with a window, which can be divided into 3 functional parts.

The KDE Control Center Screen
Across the top is a menubar. The menubar will provide you with quick access to most of KDE Control Center's features. The menus are detailed in The KDE Control Center Menus.
Along the left hand side, is a icon tree. Here you can choose which module to configure.
The main panel shows you some system information.
In this example, we are running KDE 3.4.0, we started KDE Control Center
as user newkde, the computer is
named turtle, it is a
Linux® system running the 2.6 kernel, on a i686 processor.