When I load Kbear, the KDE taskbar will crowd together thw tasks in the taskbar, and open up a lot of in between items on the "System Tray".
Yeah, it happened to me, and I'm running KDE3.3.1 on 9.1, so it's not a 9.2 issue
I wasn't sure what Kbear was, until I tried it. It's YAFTPC (Yet Another FTP Client).
Well, geez...What's wrong with textmode BSD style? Not only that, but Konqueror is also an FTP client like IE can be. But Wait There's More! Type fish://your.account@somedomain.com into a Konqueror location bar, and *woosh*, you're into your remote account via ssh/scp, encrypted. Quite nifty.
Gosh, such help I receive. I was sadly mistaken that Kbear was the *only* way to ftp. I am so glad I had Daniel assist me in opening my eyes to the ways of Konq and to the ways of the old ye ftp.
Has anyone else seen this, and is there something I can do to fix the issue?
Yes. Find the bug and write a patch.
I'll get right on it. I'll make sure you're on the notify list for the bug also. Especially since you have such a keen helpful interest.
That said, it'd probably something simple and stupid like a misplaced semicolon requiring incredible amounts of time to vgrep for.
(vgrep - visual grep - search with your eyeballs)
Simplest solution, use a different ftp client, one that works.