The view on the right which takes up most of the area of the Kontact main window shows the active component. This exactly corresponds to the main window the component uses when run as a stand-alone application. The highlighted icon in the side pane indicates to which application the main view belongs. Kontact remembers which component was active, so when starting Kontact the view initially shows which one was activated when exiting Kontact the last time.
Kontact's Main View
In addition, there are two ways of overriding the component that Kontact starts in. The first is as an argument to the Kontact program call (see Chapter 6, Kontact On the Command Line). The second is a setting in the Kontact Settings dialog that will allow you to always start Kontact in a certain mode.
Kontact Starting Component Setting
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