> I haven't been able to do much else in the way of testing
> KDE because nothing else in KDE seems to be working.
It would appear that I missed the following instruction from the
kdelibs package:
Install notice:
To use the KDE3 layout as default for the applications menu, as root:
ln -sf /etc/xdg/menus/kde3-applications.menu \
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
So at least now KDE is working. Now I can continue trying to find out why
KDE
is producing noise for its actions (login, logout, error dialog, etc.).