desktop icons

[Nikolas Arend]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> Nikolas Arend wrote:
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>> Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
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>>> Harold Aling schreef:
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>>>>> You're certainly welcome to your opinion.  Mine differs, however.
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>>>> Mine too, although I've heard that opinion before... Configurable 
>>>> background colors or transparency (with dropshadow coolness) would be a 
>>>> very attractive feature!
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>>>> Maybe we can set up a poll for discussions like these?
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> Possible fixes: 1) option to change the desktop text color, 2) option to
> make the background not transparent.
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> 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.
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As I said above, it's your decision, nobody doubts that and we already 
know your opinion. And frankly -- not to be mean -- I think I'm neither 
obsessive nor in a vast minority. And I didn't request you to cater me 
in my post, rather the opposite actually.
> Can we be done with this thread now?
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It would be nice if someone (maybe you or Benedikt) could comment on the 
Thunar-will-provide-icons-in-the-future thing.

Nick.