Since coming back from OSD2008 (which was great btw) I've been ill and tried to stay home from work. On the bright side this have given me a bit of time to mess around with KDE 4.1 on Gentoo.

The packages are still masked and unstable but I encountered surprisingly few problems emerging it. I had to mask >qt-4 in order for qt-core to pull in the rest of the new qt ebuilds. See Gentoo Wiki Blockers for other blockers.

The only stability problem encountered so far is a few crashes when using some of the fancy new eye candy. Sometimes X crash and sometimes I just loose the mouse (I can get it back with ALT+F2->logout, but as soon as I close the logout dialog the mouse disappears again).

Also nepomuk sometimes get killed by Pax.

The new panel have been annoying me a bit, since it apparently still doesn't do autohiding:-(

Even more annoying is that several kio-slaves seems to not work (ie. daap, sftp).

Okular is the KDE4 replacement for kpdf and seems to be working a bit better than the predecessor.

To get sound to work it appears that you have to emerge phonon-xine. Amarok 1.90 still seems a bit bare, but works as advertised.

Install kdeplasma-addons to get User Friendly comic on your desktop. Use CTRL+F12 to show/hide your dashboard(formerly desktop).

But despite these problems I don't think I'll be looking back at KDE 3.5 on Gentoo again soon. At least not if I get some of the above issues fixed :)