Actually the fix is definitely present in both dapper and edgy. .gtkrc2.0 and .gtk_qt_engine_rc are not created by startkde if either xfce or gnome is installed.
I could imagine that those files are created by a different script or application. Can you trace back the creation of those files to a certain action or are they actually created every time you start up KDE? -- gtk2-engines-gtk-qt causes GNOME-panel to crash upon startup and causes Gnome to look ugly https://launchpad.net/bugs/36256 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
