Tom,
I'll try and help with a few of your questions, however please
don't try and evaluate Debian on the strength of KDE 3.1 Beta
or Unstable. I do run Unstable and 3.1 Beta on a seperate partion
from my Testing/KDE 3.03. And although KDE is Beta, it is pretty
stable as is the Unstable OS but KDE 3.1 Beta does have some problems.
(It IS a Beta!)
I can login in to KDE3 and run, but I don't get the menubar across
the bottom of the screen, so when I minimize a window, I don't know
how to get it back! I'd thought 'kicker' was what I needed, but that
is installed fine.
kcontrol is broken ... you can try finding the appropriate settings in
the kd...rc files, but kicker panel was hard for me to find also! The
default settings for that are to not display. To fix that, run
kcmshell panel from a command line. Change the Position as desired but
most importantly change the Length from 0% to 100%. From memory I had
found a way to display that from a menu but I can't find that now!!!
Once you have the taskbar defined, you can get to that thru the K
menu.
Your secondary question was about Välkommen
That is the greeting that was left by the Swedish packager (Karolina
Lindqvist - to be thanked for the 3.1 debs) and pgd is part of the
login. As far as Välkommen I'm saving this for future KDM logins -
It's a bit nicer than my English Welcome! As far as pgd ... you can
define that from the kcontrol panel - login manager but since that
doesn't work change the DefaultUser=pgd in /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc to
the DefaultUser=yourid that is desired for login.
Michael
