Status bar
KComm's status bar displays information about what is going on, and also information about the stations whose calls you enter. Depending on whether contest mode has been selected, it can display information about whether a call is a new multiplier, or whether the station has already been contacted.
As well as the button to shrink or expand the application window, some other small buttons may be displayed there. If sound card decoding is being used then a button with a loudspeaker icon appears which lets you quickly open the sound card properties. If the selected radio is an Elecraft K3 then a button with an Elecraft icon appears which can be used to launch the K3 Firmware Utility.
If the DX Cluster settings have been configured then a button with an icon of a terminal screen will be present. This is used to open the DX Cluster window.
If you have the program CW Skimmer and have configured the necessary settings then a button with the CW Skimmer icon will be present. Clicking it will start CW Skimmer (if it is not already running) and then open a connection between it and KComm so that you can click on text in Skimmer to transfer it to the KComm log window. This will also allow KComm to colour code stations "spotted" by Skimmer to show if they are new countries or prefixes, or have previously been worked in a contest.
You may also see an inter-process communication icon displayed. This shows you that KComm is ready to accept logging messages from gMFSK or Fldigi.