Ouch. Well, I'm now posting from konqueror in my shiny new KDE desktop, emerging mplayer, and trying to figure out how to get flash working...
I've got the adobe-flash package emerged, and pointed konqueror to the right location, and hit scan for plugins, but got nothing.
So I decided to emerge chromium and see how that works, since I love chrome anyway.
I've noticed something about the wireless though, which is really annoying. It seems to drop out all the time, and not automatically connect. It's not a huge deal because all I need to do is type "iw wlan0 connect bobbias" but its kinda annoying, is there some way I can configure things to automatically reconnect?
EDIT: I found a tool called wicd, hopefully that will help things, though from the sounds of it its designed to restart the interface when it stops, rather than reconnecting to the correct SSID when the connection drops (which in itself is a bit unusual because the connection quality is pretty good.
EDIT2: And I'm still compiling Chromium :/ good god this takes a long time.
EDIT3: Great, I begin to get things working, and end up taking a few steps back. For some reason my wireless is becoming somewhat unstable. I couldn't get a DHCP lease, and I've been stuck manually running dhclient to get it (not that bad, considering I actually know how to use iwconfig and iw now).
The real step back though is that I decided I wanted to grab PulseAudio and get it working, because flash in chromium doesn't have sound, and now my system tells me that my main device isn't working. The fuck. I've done emerge --newuse -p world to check if anything needed to be rebuilt after selecting pulseaudio as a use, and I rebuilt mplayer, but none of the kde stuff came up.
EDIT: Well it seems that now pulseaudio might be working, but KDE doesn't like it. It tells me that a device isnt working, and I can't get kmplayer to play music, but flash finally has sound.
EDIT: and it mysteriously works.... Though I still cant get sound out of mplayer :/ (and all the levels are up, nothing is muted)