desktop icons

[Andrew Conkling]

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.
>
> 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.
Some would even say it's xfdesktop's job to respect the theme color on
the desktop.
/me duck and covers.

Brian, can you give us a general idea of what you would ideally have
on the desktop, and then we can add any pertinent changes to bugzilla?
 That should be the end of things here....