desktop icons

[Harold Aling]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> roger wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 18:30, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>     
>>> Samuli Suominen wrote:
>>>       
>>>>> Frank McCormick wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Trying out the desktop icons...but the white background to the
>>>>>> text underneath the icon I find very annoying. Any chance of
>>>>>> getting it to display in another colour...or transparent ??
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Nope, sorry.
>>>>>           
>>>> Is that going to change for final 4.4 release? I don't wanna troll or
>>>> anything, but it renders those desktop icons unsable for me.
>>>>         
>>> Sorry, I should have been more clear: it's possible, but I don't want to
>>> do it.  It's a silly pref for little gain.
>>>
>>>       
>> I very much like this icon feature (for minimized applications) and definitely 
>> wouldn't say that it could be unusable because of the icon text (hard coded) 
>> white background. However I don't think that a request for having this 
>> background transparent or color-configurable is a silly one.
>>     
>
> You're certainly welcome to your opinion.  Mine differs, however.
>   
Mine too, although I've heard that opinion before... Configurable 
background colors or transparency (with dropshadow coolness) would be a 
very attractive feature!

Maybe we can set up a poll for discussions like these?

-H-
> 	-brian
>   
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