[kde-linux] KDE 4. Trying to get it working like I need it to.

[Dale]

James Tyrer wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>   
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I log into KDE 4 whenever there is a update to something just to see
>> what is working and what issues still remain.  This is hopefully going
>> to be the catch all thread for me.  Right now, I have two things that I
>> want to work on.  There are others but this is two biggies.  I will say
>> that after this last update, it is looking pretty darn cool. 
>>
>> I'm using Gentoo.  I have both KDE 3.5 and KDE 4 installed.  After
>> yesterday, I have the latest updates that are available through Gentoo. 
>> Here are the versions of some of the software that may help in this:
>>
>> sqlite-2.8.16-r4
>> sqlite-3.6.18
>> kdelibs-4.3.3
>> akonadi-server-1.2.1 
>> akonadi-4.3.3
>>
>> This is all the dbus related stuff:
>>
>> dbus-glib-0.76 (0)
>> dbus-qt3-old-0.70 (0)
>> dbus-python-0.83.0-r1 (0)
>> dbus-1.2.3-r1 (0)
>> qt-dbus-4.5.3-r1 (4)
>>
>>
>> If it matters,
>>
>> gcc-4.4.2
>>
>> Problem one, I used to use Konqueror as root to edit config files and
>> such.  I have to be root to do this.  I set Dolphin up to run as root
>> and it comes up fine.  I even like the look so far.  The last time I
>> tried this it wouldn't even open a folder, directory or whatever you
>> want to call it.  It does after this latest update today.  I assume that
>> got fixed.  However, if I got to a directory like /etc ,which is owned
>> by root, and try to open a text file, I get a error.  It won't let me
>> copy and paste so it is a screen shot.  It basically complains about
>> Klauncher and dbus.  Screen shot is attached as screenshot1.
>>
>>     
> Does it work if you open a Konsole and start it with:
>
> 	kdesu dolphin
>
> ?
>
> Note that if you don't have a link that "kdesu" is, for some strange
> reason" buried as: "$KDEDIR/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu".  If you don't have
> a link, you might want to make one.  Name it kdesu4 if you still have
> KDE-3 on the system.
>
>   

It doesn't work.  I get the same error about klauncher and D-Bus.  It 
can go through directories tho. 

Dale

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