desktop icons

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Nikolas Arend wrote:
> 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.

Ok, here's why it's not transparent in general (that is, why I put the
background there at all): if your text color (from the gtk theme)
happens to be close to or matches with the dominant color in your
backdrop image, then you can't read the text.

Possible fixes: 1) option to change the desktop text color, 2) option to
make the background not transparent.

1) That's not xfdesktop's job; that's the theme's job.
2) It's more or less pref-bloat.  If you're the kind of person who can't
get used to a colored background on your text, I feel like you're a bit
obsessive and -- not to be mean -- but you're probably in a minority of
users and I don't see the need to cater to you.

Can we be done with this thread now?

	-brian

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