Yup, I discovered that workaround. :) Or vice-versa, change the Transparency Tint color to that of the clock font.

Also, don't use Transparency, which is why some user accounts saw the problem and some did not. Not all accounts use Transparency.

All doable, but chintzy. :)

I'll file a bug report to restore the original KDE behavior with a configuration option.

> right click on the clock, choose
> configure clock, you can match the
> colour of the
> shadow to the background and it will eliminate the shadow.
> 
> If you have any questions please feel free to post again or
> email me.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Kate
> 
> On 12/11/10, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
>