KDE3 apps running in a KDE4-modified environment

[Clarence Dang]

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:26, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 17.04.07 18:46:12, Mauricio Piacentini wrote:
> > This is a KMahjongg example, but I believe several other apps are in the
> > same state. When I did this mistake (two months ago) Kate and Konqueror
> > for KDE3 also crashed when they found kde4-versions of the rc files.
> > Maybe this has changed by now.
>
> I just reproduced this with 3.5.5 kate, however dr. konqi didn't
> produce a backtrace (I do have kdelibs and kdebase debug symbols
> installed).

export KDE_DEBUG=1  # 
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/FAQs/Debugging_FAQ#How_do_I_avoid_Dr_Konqi.3F

... then run kate in GDB.  There is already a bug report about this Dr Konqi 
behaviour.