I use the weather applet with no problems, though when my net would go down or something I'd get that same issue. This *may* be fixed in 3.1.2 and if not I'm pretty sure it will be in 3.2. Anyway to save your kde, delete the weather applet rc rile in ~/.kde/share/config/weather_panelappletrc and this should restore you to no configuration which will give you back your panel and let you either reconfig your applet, or remove it.
Ok I don't know of a better forum for this so I'll put it here. Basically I'm having major memory issues since I only have 128M of ram. Is there anyway I can reduce kde's memory footprint so that my system is more responsive?
Not sure if this is the right forum for this or not but does anybody know the format of konqueror's history? I checked ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/konq_history but that's a binary file that I don't know the format of.
Maybe I'm just crazy and you couldn't ever do this, but I could have sworn you used to be able to change the mounted and unmounted icons for devices that kde3.1 automatcially put on the desktop, but I can't seem to now. Am I just crazy or is this an actual issue?