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I rebuilt tdelibs and tdebase again tonight removing all patches. The patches that were removed were:
kdelibs: # patch -Np0 -i ${pkgname#*-}-XDG-KDE-TDE.diff # patch -Np0 -i ${pkgname#*-}-KDE4-detect.diff # patch -Np0 -i ${pkgname#*-}-kdetcompmgr.diff # patch -Np0 -i ${pkgname#*-}-recentdocs.diff
kdebase: # patch -Np1 -i ${srcdir}/tdebase-feedbackdlg.diff
Upon tde start - knemo popped up like it should -- which was a good indication that kcontrol would be fixed as well. It was. So the issues is in one of the experimental patches. We don't want to push those until we can identify which one... For next week.
It took me ages to figure out why all my kcontrol modules had disappeared a while back; it turned out that TDE is far more reliant on a correct and intact menu structure being present on the system than I first realized.
Therefore my money's on patch *-XDG-KDE-TDE.diff being the problem.
Tim