OK, there's one which is absolutely huge for me. I'm sure that there's a way to get rid of it, since everything I've seen thus far in KDE is that it's all about customization. Now then, the thing that I want to do first, and foremost, is to remove that little button thing on the right side of the panel. I don't need it there, there's no reason for me to have it. If I want to add widgets or something similar to the panel, I can do something else. But that there is driving me insane. I want to remove it, or otherwise displace it, so that I can easily put a "show desktop" widget on the panel there since I'm used to that from GNOME/XFCE/Windows from teh beginning of time. I always had a show-desktop on either the far-left or the far-right of the panel, and here lately, I like it on the far-far right.

Also HDD temp is not working with the kde temperature application. It's being read easily, and it works under GNOME, so thus I think that it's something with KDE not wanting to read it. I have no idea why it's not, but it's simply not.

If you're talking about button which shows panel configuration bar - it disappears when panel is locked. Right-click this button, choose "Lock items".

Ah OK, well that's gone. But then about the rest of it. Also why is KDE constantly using 1 CPU at 100% whilst the rest are allowed to sit there semi-idle. GNOME has never done this. Also how can I make it show the _actual_ cpu percentage that a program is using. TOP is stating that firefox(whilst doing the sunspider benchmark) is using 38% whereas KDE's monitor says 4% this leads to _huge_ differences in what the CPU is actually being used. I'd like to have it showing the _actual_ CPU percentage as the kernel does it which is up to x% wherein x is the number of cpus times 100.


Finally, how do I make it so that KDE does not sleep when I close my laptop lid? In GNOME it's under power management, under windows, it's under power management. In KDE there's no option given.

I'm not sure if this one core cpu usage is related to KDE, updatedb behaves that way. Check if it's running when only one of your cores will be used. If it comes about second question: right click on battery meter → power save settings → power profiles → your profile → when the laptop lid is closed.
BTW, why do you use single thread to solve 4 or 5 completely unrelated problems?