I've just committed some code that replaces the plugin loading code in kicker 
with KLibLoader (though not with KLibFactory, for reasons of source 
compatibility with plugins). This seems to work fine, with the notable 
exception of the childpanelextension plugin. This plugin is dependent on 
kicker.so. When KLibLoader tries to load libchildpanelextension, this error 
occurs: 

kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: library=libchildpanelextension: 
file=/opt/kde-cvs/lib/libchildpanelextension.la: 
/opt/kde-cvs/lib/libchildpanelextension.so.1: undefined symbol: 
addApplet__13ContainerAreaRC7QStringb

If I rerun kdeinit in a konsole and restart kicker, the child panel library 
loads fine. This leads me to believe that my LD_LIBRARY_PATH is being setup 
wrong, but it seems to always include $KDEDIR/lib.

Do other people have this problem? Am I doing something wrong in the code or 
is my environment screwed up?

-John