xfdesktop patch (new mcs options for icon labels)

[Nikolas Arend]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> Mark Aissen wrote:
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>> Nikolas Arend wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> Thanks for your offer. Unfortunately I do daily builds from svn. I do 
>> not think that gtkrc is responsible for icon label transparency.
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> http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/xfdesktop/trunk/README
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I think what he meant is that theme settings 
_should_ not be responsible for label transparency. My knowledge of gtk 
theming policy/good practice does not reach far enough to make a 
judgment on this.

Nick.