wonderful to see kde running, but I'm not having success
changing the konsole schema. What I mean is that I can
change it but that the next time I start konsole it's gone
back to the default (transparent with green text).

I see that ~/.kde/share/config/konsolerc has the new
schema in place but still the default schema appears ...

Anyone know what's going on?

I'm guessing it might be a permissions problem, similar to what we're seeing when we try to make changes to Menu Editor.

I've tried to "Save Sessions Profile" and "Save as Default" in Menu - > Settings and I still get the same result as you - No error messages.