desktop icons

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Andrew Conkling 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.
>>
>>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.

More or less, yes.

> 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....

Not sure what you mean.  It is what it is.  The only change (aside from
bugfixing) that I plan on doing before 4.4 is to add a "create shortcut"
menu item when Benny's finished with the shortcut editor in libexo.

	-brian

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