>>I wanted to help test the patch provided in bug report 1664.
>>
>>I am unable to get the tabbar extension to appear in kate. This 
>is 
>>
>>true for systems with or without the 1664 patch. I select the 
>>check 
>>box in Settings -> Plugins but the bar never appears. When I 
>again 
>>
>>open Settings the check box is unchecked.
>>
>>Here is what I see in my xsession-errors log:
>>
>>tdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: symbol not found
>>tdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: The library 
>>libkatetabbarextensionplugin does not offer an 
>>init_libkatetabbarextensionplugin function.
>>
>>I see similar stderr messages with the Kate File Templates 
>plugin:
>>
>>tdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: symbol not found
>>tdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: The library katefiletemplates does 
>
>>not offer an init_katefiletemplates function.
>>
>>This is a recent git package set from a day ago.
>>
>>Would somebody else affirm this behavior?
>
>I have a virtual machine running Trinity. The package set is from 
>July 29. I see the same behavior there in that selecting the 
>plugin 
>check boxes results in the tabbar not appearing and when 
>immediately thereafter opening the Settings dialog the check boxes 
>
>are cleared. I do not see the stderr messages but I suspect that 
>is 
>because this older package set does not include commit 5354555.
>
>I have a 3.5.13.0 virtual machine. There I am able to enable the 
>tabbar extension. That tells me only that something changed from 
>3.5.13.0 to pre R14.
>
>The problem appears with or without the tdeaddons patch. I suspect 
>
>tdelibs, either a corner case I have stumbled across or something 
>in my build script configuration options. The problem occurs with 
>a fresh profile too.

I performed a complete package set rebuild. As always, a clean 
build environment. Same problem.

Darrell