xfdesktop patch (new mcs options for icon labels)

[Nikolas Arend]

Mike Massonnet wrote:
> Thu, 25 May 2006 15:11:26 +0200 - Mark Aissen <markaissen at freenet.de>
> 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.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Thanks for your offer. Unfortunately I do daily builds from svn. I do 
>> not think that gtkrc is responsible for icon label transparency.
>> Your solution is much better  however not working with the newest svn 
>> releases. I hope Brian will change his mind.
>>     
>
> http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2006-May/020072.html
>   
Yes, is I said, two of the three options are implemented in svn: icon 
label alpha value and label text color. But they are only configurable 
vie gtkrc entries. The patch adds options for the mcs manager plugin 
(which I guess many "not-so-experienced" users tend to use).

Nick.