Answered my own question... http://www.qtforum.org/forum/25/KDE-Development.html
Is there a forum like this for kde developers? None showed up when I googled it, but I may have been looking for the wrong thing I've been working in Qt for years and I'd like to learn some KDE stuff. I went through the plasmoid tutorial (here) and got to the end and now I have a problem I cant figure out. Thanks
This is a very young kde, and was written from scratch. It's going to take a while for all the customization functionality to work its way in. This release seems mainly for early adopters who like to find bugs, and developers. Best bet is to fall back to 3.x until 4.1 comes out.