David Corbin wrote: > > $ grep kde /var/lib/portage/world | sort > > When I get that, all I get is: > kde-base/kde
Okay, no problem, you have a full KDE install, not a series of split ebuilds. > Ah! I see what's happened to me (at least in part). When I run > the control center, it prompts me for the root password, That is strange, starting the Control Center shouldn't ask for the root password. Only under System Administration most sections have an Administrator Mode button, needed when one wants to change anything there. Then it asks for the root password. All the rest should be changeable as your normal user. Do you still have your ~/.kde3.3 dir lying around? If so, you may want to tar it up somewhere safe, then delete the dir, and restart KDE, just to be sure. That probably won't help anything, so then log out of KDE, move ~/.kde3.4 to a different name for the moment, clean all KDE stuff out of /tmp, and then relogin to KDE. If that brings things back to normal, you may try diffing the old and new .kde3.4 dirs. If it doesn't help, restore your original .kde3.4 dir to get all your settings back. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
