Your View menu settings (such as the View Mode, Use index.html and Show Hidden Files items) are automatically saved by Konqueror as the default options.
But you can also specify different View menu settings for any individual directory. To do this check the Save View Properties in Directory box in the Settings menu then change the View settings to whatever you want, then uncheck the Save View Properties in Directory box. Doing this creates a .directory file in that directory to hold the directory View settings. Use the Settings->Remove Directory Properties option to remove the directory specific settings (or just delete the .directory file).
 | One nice use of this feature is if you have a directory full of pictures. You can set that particular directory to display thumbnails of the pictures (by choosing Icon View and Image Preview from the View menu) when you open it, while not displaying images as thumbnails in other directories. |
Your current settings for the Menubar, Toolbar, Locationbar and Bookmarkbar can be saved as defaults by using the Settings->Save Options option.
Konqueror's overall appearance when you start it up is determined by one of two 'profiles', depending on whether you start it as a File Manager or as a Browser. These control the window size, whether the window is split into two or more views, whether the Directory Tree or Terminal Emulator are shown, and the starting directory or URL.
To change this start up behaviour, simply set Konqueror to whatever you want then in the Window menu select Save View Profile File Management or Save View Profile Web Browsing depending on which mode you are in.
You can also create extra start up profiles and save them with the Window->Save/Remove View Profile option. You can then select them from the Window->Load View Profile drop down menu.
| You can create a desktop icon to start Konqueror with your new profile. First create a desktop icon by dragging the Konqueror icon from the K menu onto the desktop and selecting Copy Here. Then right click on the new icon, select Properties... and change Program Name in the Execute tab page to kfmclient openProfile MyNewProfile, MyNewProfile being what you called the new profile. Then in the General tab page change the name to something like MyNewProfile.desktop and pick a more suitable icon. |