Comment 20 for bug 184337

actually this has been fixed in kde trunk... revision 805921
in the 4.0 branch... revision 805923

this code was removed

 //Compatibility
       if( dbusStartupType.isEmpty() && desktopGroup.hasKey("X-DCOP-ServiceType"))
       {
           dbusStartupType = desktopGroup.readEntry("X-DCOP-ServiceType").toLower();
           entryMap.remove("X-DCOP-ServiceType");
       }

obviously you can see the problem... it shouldn't be waiting for it on DBUS if X-DCOP-ServiceType is true

going to close bug...