Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: GCC 3.2 OS: Linux Using the Panel settings, a background image can be specified for Kicker. This image appears on everything, even the date on the clock, but it doesn't appear on the clock's time. Another user, Gary Greene, produced a screen shot (attached) that shows the problem - but very faintly - when using Mosfet's Liquid style. The problem is that the clock code sets a background color even when "Use custom colors" is disabled in the clock's settings. Also, the clock time widget doesn't call setBackgroundMode(QWidget::X11ParentRelative), but the date widget does, making the image appear in the date but not the time. I created a patch to fix this problem (attached). It fixes the Plain and Fuzzy styles; however, I did not fix the LCD and Analog styles due to their more complex drawing routines. After posting the patch on the kde-core-devel list (http://lists.kde.org/?t=103991785300002&r=1&w=2), Zack Rusin said: "I looked at your patch and I'm not sure if that's the way we want to do it. In Qt, backgroundMode of WindowOrigin works much better than X11ParentRelative for tiling across widgets. Mosfet was researching it a little bit more and he found (to quote him from an email to me :) ) : Not only does it handle things like the digital clock's label correctly, it also works on all X servers. X11ParentRelative doesn't work well with some S3 chipsets. I'm planning to switch some drawing code in Kicker in the next two weeks while adding translucency to it so please bare with me while I'm working on it. I think we can safely work on the clock once this done, unless someone considers drawing of the clock background a must fix for 3.1." So currently the bug is in a state of limbo until Zack does the transparency work. This report is just to make sure the bug isn't forgotten.
Created attachment 631 [details] Screenshot demonstrating bug in Mosfet's Liquid style It's difficult to see, but the stipple shown in the taskbar doesn't extend to the clock. (The bug is easier to see with darker background images.)
Created attachment 632 [details] Fixes bug for the Plain and Fuzzy clock styles
This bug becomes even more noticable and annoying when you remove the clocks frame.
thanks, yeah, this bug should not be forgotton... (about the S3-chipset-problem, maybe i got that too now, sometimes a window or the whole desktop is showing 'strange stripes', like a graphic bug, also it seems that the system freezes for a short time, but i think, that only relay to S3, so, that's no bug-report of me now ;) but, about the clock, i am waiting for that since kicker background is able to be set. c.u.
*** Bug has been marked as fixed ***.