K3b, and other kde programs wont start

[S-99]

Hi, i'm new to linuxmint. I like it a lot better than straight ubuntu. Actually i feel that the ubuntu based distro's do a much better job than ubuntu themselves at making a complete and polished distro. And here i went from mepis to linux mint.

Which leads me to my next concern, i desire to run k3b (it's still a lot better than gnomebaker and brasero) and kopete (because i desire to have some functionality with my webcam since gyachi does not work as well in feisty as compared with edgy). Anyway, i have k3b installed, and it grabs all the necessities from synaptic and puts itself into the mintmenu (i love the mintmenu as well). After that i click and it wont run, so i go into console and try to run k3b from there. And this is what it gives me...

s99half@shart:~$ k3b
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
trying to create local folder /home/s99half/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/s99half/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/s99half/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/s99half/.kde/socket-shart: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/s99half/.kde/socket-shart: Permission denied
kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : Permission denied
Could not bind to socket '/home/s99half/.kde/socket-shart/kdeinit__0'
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Can't setup DCOP communication.
s99half@shart:~$

Kopete gives me the same stuff about permission denied and can't setup dcop communication.

[scorp123]

trying to create local folder /home/s99half/.kde/share: Permission denied

Can you please give us the output of this command:

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 ls -alR /home/s99half/.kde

... and then please put the entire output here.

[S-99]

Unnecessary. It's obviously a problem with user rights management with the .kde folder. Couldn't even get into that thing as a normal user. So i took someone else's advice and changed the user rights for it by going into my home directory and typing

"sudo chown -hR [your login name] .kde"

This gives the .kde folder normal permissions as opposed to only having root permissions, now it has my normal profile's permissions so dcopserver no longer has a problem and i can run k3b and kopete.