setup a box without xorg-{x11,server} emerge tightvnc emerge kicker setup vncserver and connect to it then run. $ kicker dcopserver: 'iceauth' not found in path, aborting. DCOPServer self-test failed. sh: iceauth: command not found kdeinit: DCOPServer could not be started, aborting. ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Can't setup DCOP communication.
I added it as a dep to 3.5.2-r6 and 3.5.3-r3. Thanks for the report.
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