xfdesktop patch (new mcs options for icon labels)

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 5/25/2006 11:47 AM, Nikolas Arend wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> Thanks for your offer. Unfortunately I do daily builds from svn. I do 
>>> not think that gtkrc is responsible for icon label transparency.
>>>     
>> http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/xfdesktop/trunk/README
>>   
> 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.

Well I think ice cream shouldn't be eaten while drinking beer.  If
you're going to say something outrageous, you gotta back it up, no?

And it's not a "theme setting" per se.  It's a "style property".  Label
alpha seems well-suited to that to me.

	-brian

[1] For the record, I love drinking beer and eating ice cream.

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