[Bug 80444] [NEW] kcontrol is empty

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Binary package hint: kde

OK, this is one of the weirdest issues I had with Ubuntu. I'm not sure
where to put it, I though I'd place it in "kde" and see if anyone can
suggest a better spot. Bear with me:

I use Ubuntu Feisty (all repositories including multiverse; I installed
Dapper and updated from there), with the Gnome interface, on a Dell
Latitude D620 laptop. (I'll fill in with more details if asked.)

The only KDE thing I use is Amarok (well, Qt, anyway). My problems all
started when I noticed that the fonts in Amarok got rendered uglier than
those in the other applications. As far as I can tell, they were (and
still are) rendered with anti-aliasing (grayscale, I think) without
hinting.

(I had fonts set-up to my taste, using the default Gnome applet, when I
installed Ubuntu, with full hinting and sub-pixel AA. It worked just
right in both Gnome apps and Amarok.)

I don't know what triggered the change, it was probably an update of
some Qt thing. I didn't notice this right away, so I'm not sure.

I tried looking for info on the forums --
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=336229 -- because I'm not
really familiar with KDE. A few guys tried to help me by suggesting I
install kcontrol and use it to change KDE's font settings. (That's what
I wanted to do, I just didn't know the name of the package.)

For some reason, the kcontrol window did not display any actual settings
pages. I tried installing kde-core, kdebase, and finally the whole kde
package. After any number of restarts/logins, I still didn't find any
controls in kcontrol. I also tried qt3-qtconfig, but it only allows
picking fonts, not the rendering options.

Any idea what I can do? I'm really only interested about fixing the font
rendering, but if I can help with tracing the kcontrol problem (and it
doesn't involve reinstalling the entire OS), I'm willing to try.

** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Fix Released

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kcontrol is empty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80444
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