desktop icons

[Nikolas Arend]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Harold Aling schreef:
> ...
>   
>>> 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?
>>
>>     
>
> Well, of course you can poll all you want, but in the end you will have 
> to convince the maintainer, Brian in this case, that this feature is 
> important enough to make it configurable or, even better, why the 
> default implementation should be different.
>   

I guess there are several aspects. I too would find the desktop visually 
more appealing and professionally-looking with transparent background, 
so that's my opinion ;-). But if Brian doesn't consider this worth the 
effort, it's his opinion that counts of course. But I think one could 
always come up with a patch for, say, the stable release. Perhaps Brian 
is "convinced" then and maybe includes it, maybe not, but people could 
use it anyway.
But as far as I heard, Thunar is planned to handle desktop icons in the 
future, is that correct? In that case, I tend to agree with Brian to not 
put too much effort into icon-handling of xfdesktop now. Please correct 
me if I'm wrong.

Nick.