The items in the Options menu are:
This determines which packages are displayed in the package tree, whether all packages, just the new ones, just the updated ones or just the installed ones.
Whether to cache remote (FTPed) directories and Package files.
Whether to cache remote package files that have been fetched
If set the list of files in the package is checked to see if they are actually installed
If set all the files from a (local) package directory are read instead of just using the files names, this is slower but shows more information.
The standard KDE dialog for setting shortcut keys (KDE post 1.1)
This provides for specifying the location of package directories (either local or FTP), each line includes an entry where the URL or name of the directoryirectory can be typed in, a "..." button that brings up a file selector and a "Use" radio button that determines whether the directory given in the line is to be used or not. The multiple panels are just for convenience.
The two panels specify directories containing KISS packages
The first panel gives the location of the ports tree in the file system
The other panel allows the specifying the location of packages directories ie those containing INDEX files
The first two panels work the same way as for RPMs, the others allow the specification of a Debian distribution and the location of Packages files in that distribution.
For Slackware packages there are three types of panels
The first panel is the location of a PACKAGES.TXT file which is used to provided information on the installed packages
The next four panels can be used to specify the location of distributions with the directory tree containing the .tgz files and the location of the corresponding PACKAGES.TXT file
The last two panels are for directories that do not have a corresponding PACKAGES.TXT file
Activate/Deactivate the tool bar
Save the current options setting immediately instead of when Kpackage exits.