I’m getting reports that Lancelot has a black border on some distributions – like in this picture: http://imagebin.ca/view/h1oGpJ.html.

If you have this problem, please file a bug report for the distribution you’re using. I’ve already sent a mail [1] to kde-packager mailing list, but it looks like some distributions’ packagers don’t really follow that list.

I don’t get why the kdeplasma-addons is compiled on a separate system (or virtual machine) compared to libplasma and plasma and with a different set of installed libraries.

[1]

Hi all,

It have come to my attention that in
some distributions (no need to specify
which) Lancelot is compiled without the
support for compositing while the
plasma is composite-enabled.

While compiling Lancelot, you should
ensure the presence of libXcomposite,
libXrender and libXdamage development files.

Cheers and thanks in advance,
Ivan

Just a note – if you get larger than normal CPU usage when using Kopete and Lancelot at the same time in KDE 4.3, visit the BUG:196809

This should be fixed in 4.3.1. In the meanwhile you can disable the Kopete integration by doing the following:

open lancelotrc file (~/.kde/share/config/lancelotrc) with your favourite text editor and add the following line to the [Main] section

imPlugins=disabled

As you know, I’m not a KOffice developer, I’ve just read something disturbing that shows its importance:

http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/prototyping_a_new_ui_july

So I’m urging every soon-to-be KDE developer to seriously consider contributing to KOffice.