xfce 4.6 background color/image

[Stephan Arts]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Xfe 4.6 beta is coming by the end on next week, I'd like to settle the
> default appearance of a newly installed desktop.
>
> Given the color scheme selected for Xfc e4.6 (dark blue/grey/light
> blue) I think the best fit for the desktop is a very dark blue derived
> from the active window border #030508 with xfce-stripes.png as image
> applied.
>
> This gives a dark but very clean look IMHO.
>
> Screenshot here:
>
> http://www.foo-projects.org/~olivier/screenshots/xfce46-xfdesktop-color.png

I'd rather go with something a bit more colorfull... the black in
combination with that wallpaper makes it hard on the eye.

Somethink like this:

http://mocha.foo-projects.org/~stephan/screenshot-netbook.png

Or green... dunno, its not my call... but I wouldn't pick black.

my 2 ct.

Cheers,
Stephan