Below is the first page of these options - with a description of each option.
General Options
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Font Characterset
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The characterset Database Workbench will be using when display data from tables and views.
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Uppercase Identifiers
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Automatically uses uppercase identifier names when creating database objects. Applies to object editors only, not to user written script. For some database engines, this is an easy way to avoid delimited identifiers.
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Preload Database Objects
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Instructs Database Workbench to load database objects after connecting, normally there's a "lazy loading" scheme in effect.
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Log Files Options
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Include data & time
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Includes a timestamp in the output of the log files.
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Log metadata changes
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Automatically start logging metadata changes after connecting.
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Filename
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The logfilename to append the changes to.
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For more information on the Database Workbench logfiles, see Session Recorder.