Hey ho, I've installed KDE 3.4.0 using the split ebuilds. Originally I did not install kdebase-meta but just kdebase-startkde, then the extras like kicker and kate and stuff (no Konqueror; I use Krusader and Firefox). This did not last, as I had to install the rest of kdebase-meta when I wanted to install kbiff, which was unfortunate, but noted in the changelog, so fine.
KDE works and all programs are installed, but there's something very wrong with the K-menu: 1) KControl does not appear (can be accessed using a Run box), which is annoying and disturbing (if the KDE Control Center does not appear in the KDE menu, something must be truly borked, imo); 2) Kate does not appear in either the menu or in the "Open With" menu. If I select Kate manually (using the full path to the binary) and then tell KDE to use it for all files of whatever type, it will remember that Kate exists for those types of files. But it doesn't know where the icon is, apparently (another disturbing but minor side-issue); 3) KMenuEdit does not change menu entries (the app runs, but any changes I make to icons or menu item position are not reflected in the menu itself, even after a reboot. And yes, I did of course save my changes, and the "the system configuration is being updated" dialog did appear and supposedly did its job); 4) KDE Mime-type editor will not allow me to edit entries (I went to text-plain and tried to edit the Kate entry to see if I could associate the icon; kcontrol froze and had to be killed). Is anyone else seeing any of this? I certainly didn't see issues like this under SuSE 9.3 with KDE 3.4, but then again SuSE tweaks madly, so it *could* be a KDE thing. Or it could be a split build thing (something not installed, making communication between the parts of KDE difficult). Or it could just be that I did something completely wrong somehow-- after all, I managed to break GNOME again and I don't know how I did that, either. Any suggestions to point me in a direction so that I could fix/troubleshoot whatever has gone wrong here would be appreciated. Thanks, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
