desktop icons

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:34:48 -0300, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:

> On 4/23/06, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Brian, what about making it a hidden setting?  ie, in order to change
> the color (to another or even transparent), the user is told what to
> edit in some ~/.config file (perhaps a one-liner entry in a README
> file, briefly describing hidden settings).

The problem is not adding a config option to the settings dialog.
That's pretty easy to do. Hm, changing the background color should be
easy to implement, but transparency is more difficult.

It won't be in 4.4, so we should not keep bugging Brian about it.

- Jannis
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