I run gnome. K3b and kopete are supposed to display icons in the notification area (which I've added to my panel) but instead they display these icons in small windows instead. I'm running kdelibs-3.2.3-r1 but according to: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119290 this problem was fixed in kdelibs-3.2.2-4 (or maybe the -4 there indicates a redhat specific patch? if so, lets track it down and add to portage) Its also possible that this problem is because I built k3b with the -kde use flag (however, kopete doesn't seem to suppose this flag): [ebuild N ] net-im/kopete-0.8.4 +arts -debug 5,581 kB [ebuild R ] app-cdr/k3b-0.11.14 +arts +arts -debug -debug -dvdr -encode +flac -kde +mad +oggvorbis 2,674 kB I'm rebuilding k3b with +kde to see if that changes anything... also its possible that kdelibs-3.3.0_rc2 would fix the problem but I haven't emerged that yet. emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.4.27) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.27 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.5.2 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib alsa apm arts berkdb cdr cjk crypt cups dga directfb dvd emacs encode esd f77 faad fbcon fftw flac gcj gdbm gif gimpprint ginac gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imlib jack java jpeg ldap leim libg++ libwww lirc live mad matroska mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls objc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png ppds python qhull qt quicktime radeon readline scanner sdk sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype usb v4l video_cards_radeon wxwindows x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib"
building k3b with +kde didn't help.
fixed with kdelibs 3.3.0! (well for k3b so probably for kopete as well)
