xfce 4.6 background color/image

[Christian Dywan]

Am Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:18:29 -0700
schrieb "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu>:

> 
> 
> 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.

Well, no. But if you set a good example it's less likely that packagers
do it wrong.

ciao,
    Christian