[kde-linux] Configure Panel empty!

[Bob Tennent]

 >|is your Panel config window actually empty (you said virtually) or
 >|does it have the taskbar config portion or some other config option?

Kcontrol -> Desktop -> Panels has only the Help/Defaults etc buttons
along the bottom. Right-click on the panel -> Configure Panel has only
Taskbar configuration. And, as someone reported, no Control Center or
Menu Edit in the K menu.

 >|it seems as though a very unlucky few have become befuddled with
 >|Panel problems over the last 9 months. Various distros, etc etc etc.

Can anyone confirm that they *are* getting this phenomenon on a distro
that *isn't* redhat-based?  Conjecture: redhat-menus is the culprit.

 >|Not observed with KDE 3.51 SUSE RPMs on SUSE Linux 10.0.

Note that *not* observing it for particular users means nothing; other
KDE users on *my* system don't have the problem. Some configuration
choices are involved.

Bob T.