Xfce Default Configuration

[Chris Neveu]

The icon label is definitely a good point. The default is rather ugly
and it is an extra flourish for those of you who dislike adding extra
stuff to the default.

As for backgrounds, I'm not too worried about that since and new user
will just have the distro's background.

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 2013, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>
>>
>> On 12/22/2013 07:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If you prefer it the flashy fashion way, you're free to use Mint, but as
>>>> > a basic design "tings" should be as simple, minimalist as possible,
>>>
>>>                   "things";)
>>>>
>>>> > since it's easier to add something if needed, than to remove useless
>>>> > crap.
>>>> >
>>>> > Regards,
>>>> > Ralf
>>
>> Exactly! Those of us who use XFCE don't want it "simplifies" or
>> "prettied." We use it because it can be configured to do what we want.
>>
>> Don't change direction, it is good as it has been going.
>
>
> I think people are over-reacting to Nigel Verity's posting. As I read it, he
> wasn't suggesting any radical change in Xfce: not any simplification or
> change of the minimalist philosophy, just a minor tweak of the default,
> out-of-the-box appearance.
>
> I don't care for wallpapers of any sort myself, but I take his point about
> the default look of the labels for desktop icons. IMO this is quite ugly and
> off-putting, and moreover it's not obvious to a new user how to change it
> since that has to be done by editing ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and restarting the
> desktop.
>
> --
> Allin Cottrell
> Department of Economics
> Wake Forest University
>
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