There have been some new .debs made available from tdyc the last couple of days. These *almost* work for me, unlike the ones available before yesterday. If anybody else is successfully using these, could you please tell me how you got a panel to appear?
By the way, I had to modify /usr/bin/startkde to get much of anything to work. I added: kdeinit +dcopserver kdeinit +klauncher and, later on kdesktop but no joy on the panel.