The screen shot shows a number of important windows. All of the windows can be enabled or disabled under the 'Windows' menu setting in the Main Window.
The View Window gives preview of the image that you are handling.
The preview is normally the image as it would look at the end of the graphical pipe, i.e. when all settings of the Camera, RGB and Lab tab in the main window are applied. However, when 'TabMode' is selected in the 'Preview' menu of the Main Window, then the preview is the image as it is at the end of the selected tab. So if you would select f.i. the RGB tab, you would see the image after all settings up to the RBG tab are applied, but without sharpening or L curve which are part of the Lab tab.
The View Window has a menu 'Zoom' that allows you to zoom :
Remark that the reference of the size is 'Size of image in pipe' which is default half size of the original, or smaller if resizing is applied.
The Histogram Window shows the histogram that goes along with the preview image. (So remark that if 'TabMode' is active, this is also reflected in the histogram. This is most noticeable when Lab is selected in TabMode, because you get a Luminance histogram).
The Histogram Window has a menu 'Scale' that allows you to scale the X and/or Y axis to a logarithmic scale.
The horizontal line in the histogram is the level of perfectly equal distibuted values.