On Tuesday 14 February 2012 02:11:10 Timothy Pearson wrote:

> Not sure how you could have gotten a "later branch" than 3.5.10, unless
> you included distro-specific patches that have not yet made their way into
> TDE.  If so, I'd like to merge them into TDE.

A fact is that the version from which Trinity was branched is different from that
of ours. It is evident from the differences in the dialog and the Plastik theme.

> Simple fact is, the official KDE 3.5.10 sources have broken shadows when
> the compositor is turned off.  That was the main reason for the commit,
> which I did in fact test and it did make the shadows work better on my
> test systems compared to the stock KDE 3.5.10 sources.
> 
> At this point reverting the patch would reintroduce those problems, unless
> I can then turn around and apply whatever changes were made to the version
> that works properly for you....
> 
> As I said, a bug report is needed! :-)

You can create it yourself if you wish.