The shadow is present to improve legibility with the transparent panel. My suggestion would be to add a separate radio button configuration option to control the shadow with options enable/disable/auto. Tim > 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> > > > >