> On Tuesday 14 February 2012 01:40:32 Timothy Pearson wrote:
>
>> It is quite possible that there is a problem with the control module,
>> probably due to the extensive changes to kompmgr in order to stabilize
>> it,
>> but the general code and control modules remain intact from KDE 3.5.10.
>
> And also it seems there are multiple minor differences in your dialog and
> mine.
>
> Mine shows vertical and horizontal offset sliders, yours - only vertical,
> mine shows size sliders adjusters, yours only adjuster for the base size
> and two sliders for multiliers.
> Even the form of the sliders in the same theme (Plastik) differs. This all
> suggests that Trinity is based
> on an older branch of KDE3 than that in openSUSE repository. This may
> explain why
> you experience problems with standard KDE3 shadows which work well for me.

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.

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! :-)

Tim