xfce 4.6 background color/image

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:22:00 +0200 Christian Dywan wrote:

> 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 :)

That doesn't preclude someone else (a distro packager) from including
an XML file in their own packages.  It's not an either/or situation.

	-b