> 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.

The X11ParentRelative stuff was already there. Take a look at the existing 
kdebase/kicker/applets/clock/clock.cpp in CVS. It uses X11ParentRelative to 
make the date widget transparent. I was simply extending this technique to 
the time widget. Some additional work was needed because the existing clock 
code insists on setting a background color even when "Use custom colors" is 
turned off.

> 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.

OK, no big deal as long as the bug gets fixed eventually. I think you might 
have your work cut out for you, but let me know if I can help.

Should I file a bug report as a reminder?

Trevor