I am running KDE3 with different home directory (~/.kde3 vs ~/.kde). The problem is fonts in all KDE2 applications are screwed up (it simply takes the first font available and it looks quite ugly instead of using fonts defined in KDE). If I start application as
export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde any-kde2-app everything is nice so I assume KDE2/KDE3 have incompatible ini files. I suggest /opt/kde3/bin/startkde would use something like KDE3HOME is preference to simple KDEHOME so people are able to define them differently, something like test -n "$KDE3HOME" && export KDEHOME=$KDE3HOME -andrej
