@malcolmlewis, thanks! That looks like at least an improvement: [1]
Gathers system troubleshooting information. Organizes system information to reduce problem resolution time. Serves as a training tool by showing all commands and files used to gather system information. Creates a tarball that can be attached to a Novell service request and/or sent to a Novell Technical Services engineer.
However, supportconfig doesn’t appear to exist in the repositories, and supportutils doesn’t appear to add supportconfig to $PATH.
By the way, I forgot to mention that DrKonqi does generally provide this for KDE software, albeit even that at best inconsistently:
Shall do, if ever I’ve the time. It’s 50% of the way there: