Hi, In march I found a bug in clock applet. If you choose a digital clock without the LCD style you are unable to choose the background color of the clock. The same bug is in kde-3.2.3 I found the reason of the bug, here is the patch. Where could I send it in order to get it taken into account in future releases? Thanks Michel Here is the patch : diff -ru org/kicker/applets/clock/clock.cpp mod/kicker/applets/clock/clock.cpp --- org/kicker/applets/clock/clock.cpp 2004-06-10 18:18:05.962520976 +0200 +++ mod/kicker/applets/clock/clock.cpp 2004-06-10 17:28:45.000000000 +0200 @@ -1018,7 +1018,7 @@ // let's propagate the background brush too if ((!_clock->widget()->paletteBackgroundPixmap() && _clock->widget()->paletteBackgroundColor() == paletteBackgroundColor()) - || paletteBackgroundPixmap()) + || _clock->widget()->paletteBackgroundPixmap()) { _clock->widget()->setBackgroundOrigin(AncestorOrigin); const QPixmap* brush = paletteBackgroundPixmap(); PS : In order to apply it : download and untar kdebase3 sources copy the patch in a file and after in kdebase-3.2.3 folder patch -p1 < "name of the patch" cd "name of your folder"/kdebase-3.2.3 ./configure cd ./kicker/applets/clock make then copy : ./clock_panelapplet.la and ./.libs/clock_panelapplet.so in folder /opt/kde3/lib/kde3/ the background color will be set automatically. Michel ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.