I know there are a lot of KDE threads at the moment but I think my tale is a little different. I installed KDE 3.2 without any *major* problems last night and at the moment everything seems to be working fine. I have no real complaints, since I fixed my initial small.... but odd .... difficulty.
After installing KDE 3.2 and restarting my desktop I noticed right away that something was very strange. All the words on the desktop seemed to be in a different language... certainly a different alphabet. At first I thought I had done something wrong with my installation and inadvertently changed my language, though I couldn't think how since I had only installed rpms.
It was very difficult to tell since the font was so small but it looked like it was all in Kanji characters, and when I looked more closely I saw the "Home" did indeed have four characters. So, poking around on the icons half blindly, I found my way to the control center and the fonts area. I changed all the fonts to Ariel and much to my relief the desktop was readable again.
I don't know why it occurred. But I thought I would share my story in case the same thing happens to someone else.
-- HD
Tipping my hat to Fedora.
