Hi After unmerging all kde packages, emerging kde-meta:4.1, then emerging kde-meta:3.5, /etc/profile.env has the following: ... export PATH='/opt/bin:/usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/usr/kde/4.1/bin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin:/usr/games/bin This breaks the functionality of any other KDE session than 4.1 (which unfortunately is far from stable on my system and thus not usable yet), since the wrong apps, helpers etc. get started. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. unmerge all of KDE 2. emerge kde-meta:4.1 3. emerge kde-meta:3.5 4. Start a kde-3.5 session from the KDM login screen Actual Results: 3.5 session has only basic functionality, menu, control center, most configurtion dialogs etc. do not appear at all or display "Empty Page" (sic). Expected Results: All apps working as before Proposed fix: Either in profile.env or before, determine whether we are being called during a kde session login and set paths accordingly. eg something along the lines of: --- BEGIN SUGGESTION --- ... PATH="/what/ever:/it/is" KDEVER=`ps xa | grep startkde | grep -v grep | sed -e s%.*/usr/kde/%% | cut -d / -f1` [ -n $KDEVER ] && PATH="$PATH:/usr/kde/$KDEVER/bin" ... --- END SUGGESTION ---
after various modifications in eclasses and such, this should be fixed, please reopen if you still encounter this. thanks
