KDE menus goes blank

I am using OpenSUSE 11.3 with KDE 4.4. I changed hostname of the machine and noticed that the menus of KDE goes blank. The icons are still there and I can still see the description when I hover over the icons.

Removing /home/.kde4 (or better yet backup the folder) and a reboot fixed it. Is it the right way of doing it? I don't know but I am back to business. Of course my customization where all gone.

How to get KDE version from console

There are many ways to do this. One way of would be open up konsole, then do:

kwrite --version

Kwrite is one of the default applications the comes with KDE. This should show something like:

Qt: 4.6.3
KDE Development Platform: 4.4.4 (KDE 4.4.4) "release 3"
KWrite: 4.4.4 (KDE 4.4.4) "release 2