KDE 4.0.3 Released

I hope you will read my answer,  I had no intention of continuing the discussion here. And by
no means I am trashing KDE, which I use everyday. The link to the bug I posted more for its
fun value.

Shadows do need good graphical acceleration, that one of my computers cannot provide. I just
tried it a minute ago.
I edited the xorg.conf and enabled compositing. Restart and go enable desktop effects. 10
seconds with a black screen and back to the normal one, a good thing, developers took care to
fall back to a working configuration. I selected XRender instead of OpenGL and got: no
shadows, extremely slow programs and artifacts as in this picture:
http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snapshot4xt2.png
You can trust me that everything was slow and that this is not an edited picture.

So saying that the default configuration is having usability problems on many computers is not
a lie, and it may be a few lines of code that solve this, but they are still missing after
many months.