ok i just insalled kde 3.4, this is what i did. firt of all some background info.
i have mandrake 10.1 about a month or two ago i updated the starndard 3.2 to 3.3 from thac's repositorys all was fine updated perfectly. no need to install any thing just need to add thacs repositys and updatde kdebase. thats it
then toaday i found that 3.4 is out from thac so i updated. heres what i did
i added these repositorys
1.mandrake main
2.mandrake contrib
3. plf 10.1 free
4. plf non-free
5. thacs rpm
then i updated xorg to 6.8.2
then i installed the new kde "kdebase3.4" and restartd x. and x didnt restart so i just rebooted. and that worked fine, however i got the login porblem where the login screen pops up but just loops, it also adds at lest 20 user entrys.
so i just cntrl-alt-backspace, login as a user, then type kde, and kde boots up fine,
my taskbar short cuts were all gone, no big problem i re-added them, it has a cool new feature when u leave you mouse poiter over the shortcuts now :)
the side image on the taskbar menu still said 3.3 even though i updated to 3.4 so i istalled this
mandrakelinux-kde-config-file
just go to mcc serch for "mandrakelinux" and slect mandrakelinux-kde-config-file its from thac's repository.
the side bar image now says 3.4 ( i think u may need to restart x for this to take effect.
also mu taskbar menus all had double entrys, also some were missing such as the configure>kde menu was completly gone. doing this...
su
*password*
urpme mdkkdm
urpme kdebase-kdm
urpmi mdkkdm
Reboot and everything *should* be fine. urpme is the command for uninstalling an rpm file.
did not work at for me at all.
however doing this fixed the double entrys
open a console or log in via cli
type: mv ~/.local ~/.local-bak
Run update-menus -v
Once that is done, everything should work for you
how ever the KDE menu where u can configure kde still dose not show up.
EDIT: i just rebooted my computer and i still have alot of menu entrys however it lets me login now without looping at all, so something i typed here worked !