The items in the Settings menu are:
Toggle displaying the toolbar
Save options immediately
The standard KDE dialog for setting shortcut keys
The standard KDE dialog for configuring tool bars
Which package types to handle, Debian using DPKG and Debian using APT are listed separately, it is not a good idea to enable both at the same time.
Whether to cache remote (FTPed) directories and Package files.
Whether to cache remote package files that have been fetched
Use SSH instead of SU for running privileged commands
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.
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 directory 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 SubDirs radio button indicates whether to recurse down into sub-directories. The multiple panels are just for convenience.
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 i.e. those containing INDEX files
There are three different types of panels.
The first three panels have an entry for the location of the Debian distribution tree, a combo box for the distribution name and a combo box for the architecture
The next two panels allow the specification of a Debian distribution tree and the location of Packages files in that distribution.
The last three panels specify directories the same way as for RPMs.
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