Re: Changes to nautilus desktop icon display

[JackTheDipper <gnome-color-chooser punk-ass-bitch org>]

hi, alanh!

just tested your code with a nautilus 2.14.3 that already contains the
patch you linked to and a some weeks old dev version 2.19.1.
it's working on both versions as it's supposed to be:
to see a fully visible background: set normal_alpha to 255,
to see a fully invisible background: set norml_alpha to 0,
to see a transparent background: set normal_alpha to anything between.
(a good value for testing transparency is e.g. 100)

anyone with your nautilus version or who's more involved into this
project can perhaps be more helpful, but try adjusting that value ;-)

best regards,
JackTheDipper

alanh wrote:
> Please bear with me here, I'm a simple user of Ubuntu, without a great deal
> of knowledge of code. I'm posting because I've come across an issue in the
> latest release of Feisty.  
>
> I like to display black icon text on my desktop, as opposed to the default
> white and have added these few lines to my .gtkrc-2.0 file in my home
> directory:
>
> style "desktop-icon"
>  { 
> NautilusIconContainer::frame_text = 1
> text[NORMAL] = "#000000"
> NautilusIconContainer::normal_alpha = 0
> }
> class "GtkWidget" style "desktop-icon"
>
> This has worked well for me with Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy, however I have a
> problem with Feisty - the text box around the icon is no longer transparent,
> it's now white.  I believe the normal alpha "opacity setting" is no longer
> working as before.  I've tried "googling" to find a solution and found this
> thread:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/nautilus-list gnome org/msg03167.html
>
> which, I think, describes some changes made to allow themes to control icon
> display in Nautilus.  I don't know if this is an unintended side effect of
> the changes but I'd love to get my desktop appearance back to where it was.
> Could someone please help me?
>
> Many thanks
>