kdevassistant is a no-show. Is this intended?

[Steven T. Hatton]

There was a time when I could run kdevassistant from the commandline and get a 
tool similar to the Qt assistant.  Now when I try to run it, it starts a 
process, but doesn't display anything.

This is the output from running it in an xterm.  I believe I built with 
debugging off.

QObject::connect: No such slot SplashScreen::showMessage(const QString&)
QObject::connect:  (sender name:   'unnamed')
QObject::connect:  (receiver name: 'unnamed')
QLayout "unnamed" added to IndexView "unnamed", which already has a layout
kdevelop (core): [virtual void NewMainWindow::raiseView(QWidget*)] 
kdevassistant: DocumentationPart::loadDocumentationPlugins: creating 
pluginDocQtPlugin
kdevassistant:     success
kdevassistant: DocumentationPart::loadDocumentationPlugins: creating 
pluginDocCHMPlugin
kdevassistant:     success
kdevassistant: DocumentationPart::loadDocumentationPlugins: creating 
pluginDocDoxygenPlugin
kdevassistant:     success
kdevassistant: DocumentationPart::loadDocumentationPlugins: creating 
pluginDocKDevTOCPlugin
kdevassistant:     success
kdevassistant: DocumentationPart::loadDocumentationPlugins: creating 
pluginDevHelpPlugin
kdevassistant:     success
kdevassistant: DocumentationPart::loadDocumentationPlugins: creating 
pluginDocCustomPlugin
kdevassistant:     success

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Regards,
Steven