Re: Changes to nautilus desktop icon display

[alanh <gainalan yahoo com>]

Thanks for your reply Jack.  I tried varying the normal_alpha value as you
suggested but the desktop icon text background colour remains stubbornly set
to white, whatever value I have set.  The text itself is correctly displayed
as black.

Cheers,

Alan



JackTheDipper-2 wrote:
> 
> 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
>>   
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