Re: Changes to nautilus desktop icon display

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

Indeed, after upgrading from GNOME 2.14 to 2.18 I tested it with
nautilus 2.18.1 and 2.19.3 (current svn) and both ignore normal_alpha
and prelight_alpha values.

alanh wrote:
> 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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