As a followup to my own inquiry, I learned a little bit this morning while digging around on my system. Since I've found a workaround for the most annoying discrepancies, I'll probably stop actively hunting for now and leave it as a "background task" for me to learn more about kde customization as time passes. On 3/4/06, Jeff Dooley <jfd5xte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > -the "window" menu in Konqy is missing (as per the default kubuntu installation) > -the Konqy "View Profiles" include 'Kubuntu File Manager' and 'Kubuntu > Web' instead of the vanilla KDE versions. I created a new View Profile which, as expected, was placed into: ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/profiles When I created a .desktop file to Konqy with this profile (kfmclient openProfile THIS_IS_WACKY), it didn't appear that anything changed. However, I noticed that when I used kdcop to open this profile, all of a sudden, the "window" menu was back. When I went back to read the contents of the THIS_IS_WACKY profile, I noticed the bottom line read: XMLUIFile=konq-kubuntu.rc I scanned over this file, which resides in the: /usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde-profile/... tree. It's purpose is clearly to modify Konq's UI, one change being to eliminate the "window" menu. So, I just commented-out the XMLUIFile in the THIS_IS_WACKY profile, and now I have a konq profile that behaves mostly as expected. I'm still left wondering why my konstruct-compiled sources use profiles from the kubuntu-default-settings. If someone can explain that to me, I would still like to know. -Jeff ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.