This is http://websvn.kde.org/?view=revision&revision=406411 a personal commit by Aaron Seigo after which the buttons on the taskbar in KDE 3.4 ceased to be visually pushed, when using the Classic mode.

The key line in file kicker/taskbar/taskcontainer.cpp before:

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style().drawPrimitive(QStyle::PE_HeaderSection, p, QRect(0, 0, width(), height()), colors, sunken ? QStyle::Style_Down : QStyle::Style_Raised);

after:

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style().drawPrimitive(QStyle::PE_HeaderSection, p, QRect(0, 0, width(), height()), colors)

After reverting this change and restoring the removed parameter to the function the taskbar works well again. I am currently testing the patch to submit it into Trinity.

I always suspected that Aaron introduced bugs in the latest releases of KDE3 because many bugs were introduced exactly in the most recent releases, including this bug which was very annoying. Now we have the proof. Probably nobody dared to revert him because he was the project leader.

Well he states clearly that he was not really happy with the result and that more work was needed...

Lots of developers work really hard to make a good product, sure sometimes they make mistakes or bad decisions but to call that 'breaking down' is just downright paranoid.

If you think reverting the patch will improve trinnity, great! But please don't attack personal members of the community, nobody benefits from that.

Have you tried talking to him? That might give you a new perspective.