xfce 4.6 background color/image

[Christian Dywan]

Am Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:58:16 -0700
schrieb "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu>:

> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Brian J. Tarricone
> > <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> Looks really slick to me.  If there aren't any objections I'll
> >> commit this...
> > 
> > Actually, a already mentionned, it'a bit too dark, #0F1721 would be
> > more appropriate (same color, less dark)
> > 
> > I wanted to provide a patch, but I fail to see how to set defaults
> > in xfdesktop with xfconf.
> 
> Yeah, that's why I offered to do it myself ^_^.
> 
> It's not too different from the old way, tho, just moved -- set the 
> default colors in xfce_backdrop_init() in src/xfce-backdrop.c
> (they're not being set now, so that needs to be added), and set the 
> DEFAULT_BACKDROP #define in common/xfdesktop-common.h.  Seems simpler
> to do it that way than installing an xfconf xml file.

Personally I would rather prefer a default xml file, since that would
make it easy to make custom Xfce setups without actually modifying code.

But if you are doing it, it's your call of course :)

ciao,
    Christian