xfdesktop patch (new mcs options for icon labels)

[Nikolas Arend]

Mark Aissen wrote:
> Nikolas Arend wrote:
>   
>> No, it hasn't. And most probably will never be, since Brian, the 
>> xfdesktop maintainer, is not interested in adding these options for the 
>> mcs plugin. The icon label alpha value and text color must be configured 
>> using theme settings (in gtkrc), the label color cannot be changed AFAIK.
>> I did it for fun and myself and, if people are interested, I can 
>> provides patches for the stable/official releases.
>>
>>   
>>     
> Your 
> solution is much better  however not working with the newest svn 
> releases.
Yes, you have to use revision 21811(or whatever later revision where 
xfdesktop code hasn't changed). I was asked before to post the patch for 
current svn, so I did that. But keeping up with svn is too much ;-)

> I hope Brian will change his mind.
>   
Hm, maybe ... ;-)

Best,  Nick.