>> On Tuesday 14 February 2012 02:11:10 Timothy Pearson wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Also note the differences in the nodes in the tree. In my case they are
>> pluses, and in your case they are arrows.
>>
>> Since the last version of KDE3 in Debian was KDE 3.5.9, and Trinity is
>> based on the Debian version with Ubuntu patches,
>> I suspect that Trinity is based on KDE 3.5.9 release.

Nope.  It's based on a 3.5.10 release, and was never created from a Debian
release. :-)  Please check facts (e.g. via the GIT commit logs) before
stating things like this.

Tim