Bug#641991: kate: editing window shows random collection of graphic snippets and text

[Moshe Yudkowsky <moshe@pobox.com>]

Package: kate
Version: 4:4.6.5-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

This new version of kate looks like it would be quite nice, but the 
screen -- even when no file is open -- displays a collection of
random graphics and text; as far as I can tell it's a combination of 
text from the file and random pieces of the
desktop background.

I've tried installing and uninstalling kate, and I've even moved from 
Linux 3.0.x to 2.6.x in an effort to fix this problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages kate depends on:
ii  kdebase-runtime    4:4.6.5-1+b1
ii  libc6              2.13-21
ii  libkde3support4    4:4.6.5-2
ii  libkdecore5        4:4.6.5-2
ii  libkdeui5          4:4.6.5-2
ii  libkfile4          4:4.6.5-2
ii  libkio5            4:4.6.5-2
ii  libknewstuff2-4    4:4.6.5-2
ii  libknewstuff3-4    4:4.6.5-2
ii  libkparts4         4:4.6.5-2
ii  libktexteditor4    4:4.6.5-2
ii  libplasma3         4:4.6.5-2
ii  libqt4-dbus        4:4.7.3-8
ii  libqt4-qt3support  4:4.7.3-8
ii  libqt4-sql         4:4.7.3-8
ii  libqt4-xml         4:4.7.3-8
ii  libqtcore4         4:4.7.3-8
ii  libqtgui4          4:4.7.3-8
ii  libstdc++6         4.6.1-3

kate recommends no packages.

Versions of packages kate suggests:
ii  aspell        0.60.7~20110707-1
ii  ispell        3.3.02-5
ii  khelpcenter4  4:4.6.5-1+b1
ii  konsole       4:4.6.5-1

-- no debconf information

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Moshe Yudkowsky * moshe@pobox.com * www.pobox.com/~moshe
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  instead of 'Oh cool!'"
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