[kde-linux] Red letter days

[David Baron]

>After having accidently lost my libqt-mt-dev to Debian Sid's dependency 
>foibles, I built my own qt3. Trying to compile another program (the -dev is 
>provided in the build without any ado once one can get the libraries placed 
>sensibly), ./configure demanded a (re-)install of kdelibs. I did that.

>No real working problems except some letters, usually captials at the 
>beginning of a word and a space before the first letter in areas of 
>status-bars are with red backgrounds. ???

>It's not the qt libs because I went back to the old ones and still seeing 
>red. 
>So .. what's happenin' here?

Anyway, built the qt3 from konstruct, switched to that and the red went away 
(as did an occasional yellow and blue as well :-) )

No need to reinstallthe kdelibs so might get them back.