It seems Khotkeys are essential for KDE 3.4.1, without it Command shortcuts don't work and Control Center module "Keyboard Shortcuts" segfaults. After emerge khotkeys everything seems OK. Maybe khotkeys should be a dependency of kdebase-startkde or kcontrol. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =kdebase-startkde-3.4.1 =kcontrol-3.4.1 2. Set something in Control Center/Regional & Accessibility/Keyboard Shortcuts/Command shortcuts 3. Press OK button Actual Results: Control Center crashes, settings are lost. Expected Results: It should work or at least the dialog shouldn't be available. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 28 2005, 00:43:21)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gentoo/gentoo ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdread emboss encode fam flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imagemagick imlib jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nodrm nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl pam png qt quicktime readline real samba sdl slang spell sse ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xine xml2 xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Looking at the source... Yes, kcontrol/keys uses khotkeys. Making khotkeys a dep of kcontrol. Thanks for reporting.