The problem is caused by enabling Transparency in the Panel configuration: Appearance, Panel Background, Enable Transparency.

When Transparency is enabled, the clock font then displays with an outline/shadow.

This does not happen in KDE. I can toggle Transparency in either mode in KDE and the clock font remains normal.

Seems like a bug, but I'd like confirmation before filing a report in the bugzilla.

> Additional info:
> 
> When I enable the date and day of week, that part of the
> clock display does not contain a shadow or outline. Only the
> time portion of the display.
> 
> I can toggle between Trinity and KDE and the outline/shadow
> appears only in Trinity.
> 
> > I installed the Trinity packages on a
> > system where KDE 3.5.10 was installed. I was careful
> to
> > first manually remove the KDE packages before
> installing the
> > Trinity packages.
> > 
> > I did not delete any user KDE profiles (~/.kde).
> > 
> > User accounts have the clock configured in the
> kicker/panel
> > as Plain Clock (text) using the format H:MM a/pm. Font
> style
> > is Regular.
> > 
> > With some user accounts, the clock font seems to use
> a
> > shadow or outline. Yet other accounts the font text
> looks
> > the same as in KDE 3.5.10 with no shadow or outline.
> > 
> > Shadowing is not enabled in the Desktop configuration
> > options.
> > 
> > While not running Trinity, I deleted the clock config
> file
> > from ~/.kde/share/config. Deleting the file did not
> > eliminate the shadow/outline.
> > 
> > Any ideas what might be causing this behavior?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Darrell
> > 
> > 
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