Just emerged kde-base/knode-3.5.2 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama". At the first start the config dialog started is empty: The buttons on the bottom are there, and a thin white box is on left (where the icons would normaly be in). At the top (not the title) is written "Empty Page". The same dialog is shown when selecting configure knode from the menu. But: Ran as root it works as expected! Verified this on a second (similar) AMD64 system with gentoo as well... # emerge --info Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://ftp.romnet.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://mirror.aiya.ru/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/ http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl http://gentoo.po.opole.pl http://gentoo.ynet.sk/pub http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://gentoo.intergenia.de http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF-8" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acl alsa apache2 arts audiofile automount avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 caps cdparanoia cdr cli crypt css cups curl dlloader dri dvb dvd dvdr eds emboss encode exif extensions ffmpeg font-server foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gd gif gimp gimpprint gmp gnome gpm gtk gtk2 hal i8x0 idea idn imagemagick imlib isdnlog jack java jpeg kde lcms libclamav lm_sensors logitech-mouse logrotate lzw lzw-tiff mad md5sum mng mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls no-htdocs nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtc samba sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcpd tetex threads tiff tools truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis xml2 xorg xpm xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
After restarting X (kde) it works... normal?
No idea, what your problem was, unless you have updated from a previous KDE version and have had only the updated environment in your root shell. Works fine, here.
