Original von Degauss
I just installed Suse 8.2, and am using KDE 3.1. Well, actually, I'm being forced to use Gnome(I'd rather you gag me with a spoon!) because none of the open, save, or similar dialogs are working in KDE or any of its native apps.
I'm afraid I don't know what might be the source of your problem.
I just want to say that some colleagues of mine are running
exactly this SuSE version without any problems so it doesn't
seem to be an obvious flaw in SuSE.
Did you do a fresh install or did you upgrade?
If you upgraded and have any old .kde* directories around
try to rename them out of the way or even better try
with a newly created test user.
That way you can be sure it's not your old config
that causes it.