Konsole white background, tabs on bottom.
Resolved.
The original 3.5.10 kdebase Slackware build script created a file in /usr/share/config
named konsolerc. That file specified the default schema as Linux.schema. Adding that
snippet to the Trinity build script seems have solved the problem.
My testing version of Debian Lenny does not have a /usr/share/config directory. I'm
guessing then Lenny inherits the defaults of the upstream KDE. As Lenny exhibits this
white background, tabs on bottom behavior, I'm guessing the original default 3.5.x
konsole must use the BlackOnWhite schema. Trinity inherited these same defaults, hence the
same behavior.