As I was reading Boudewijn’s blog entry on the upcoming KDE 3.3, I noticed that he was also having difficulties with the new Document Relations Toolbar in Konqueror. So I will give the same piece of advice, that I have given on #kde-devel about two or three times now: In Konqueror, Tools -> Document Relations -> Configure -> Never. The toolbar won’t bug you until you enable it again.
Incidentally the toolbar is there to take advantage of some HTML tags that allows a web page to define a set of related pages for a user agent to expose. For example, Slashdot news stories have embedded tags linking to the next and previous story. bugs.kde.org uses those tags to allow you to quickly navigate between bugs in your current query.
Another question I see often regards the new kconfig_compiler from KDE 3.2, and how to use it in new software. KDE’s build system is smart enough to try and keep you from using 3.2 build system features for a 3.1 program. What this means for you is that you must have a #MIN_CONFIG(3,2,0) (or better) defined in your configure.in.in, instead of the default of 3,0,0. Hopefully this will help some developers out who have been struggling with that.
On a more personal note, it has been a pretty annoying day trying to install Linux on my grandma’s old junker. Although I managed to squeeze more speed out of it by switching the Turbo button on, it still defies most installers. The Knoppix CD I’ve been using doesn’t seem to want to install, although it runs just fine. SuSE runs out of memory simply booting their kernel, and the beta Debian installer hangs in the middle of partitioning/formatting the HD. I want my grandma to use software younger than she is, so Debian stable is out of the question. I like Gentoo and use it myself, and although installation ironically looks easier with Gentoo (using the pre-compiled packages), it’s the maintenance that would be hard. *sigh :-(
Tomorrow I’ll try using the SuSE net install method. Here’s hoping that gets all the way through. :-P