A second control center, the Kde Control Center contains configuration options specific to the KDE desktop.

The KDE look and feel is very customizable. Mandrake also includes a number of screen savers.

KDE is themable. As usual, changes in appearance only fully affect applications designed specifically for that desktop environment.
 

I found this rather interesting. In KDE applications the "save as" dialogs are very Windows 98-ish. Much friendlier than those on GNOME based applications.

Here are a few KDE applications: KSpread, a spreadsheet application, KWord a word processing application, and KChart, a graphing application. Mandrake Linux includes a number of other applications including OpenOffice, and Mozilla.

Logging out of Mandrake Linux. Oddly it does not give me the option to shut down the computer. This seems to be because I used the default option during setup to automatically log me in. I later changed the option to not log me in automatically (a login window appears at startup) and then a different window appears here with the options to log off, shut down, or restart.