kde apps under XFCE

Having to resort to using XFCE and LXDE as KDE ( my favourite ) is a bit heavy for my no so new laptop, I still use kaffeine, kate and kwrite, this is normally fine but after installing mint14 XFCE and then the above trio of kde apps I found that kaffeine failed with "Cannot open the SQLite database" and both kate and kwrite would crash when I clicked on the open file button.

Running kaffeine from the cli gave a load of errors relating to permission errors in .kde folder.

Looking at the perm for my .kde folder I found it was owned by root and I had no access to it so I ran the following commands and that cured it.

sudo chown -R myusername .kde
sudo chgrp -R myusername .kde
sudo chmod -R a+rwx .kde

After doing this kaffeine, kate and kwrite seem to be working fine.
As a test I created a new user and the .kde folder had correct permissions so I think this only affects users created before the kde apps were installed.
This hasn't happened in the past running kde apps in XFCE and LXDE but it was nice to be able to fix a glitch quite quickly for myself.
I've tried to post this info online but couldn't find anybody posting a similar problem so am writting it here instead.

Davetesc