Re: Changes to nautilus desktop icon display

[alanh <gainalan yahoo com>]

Thanks Jack.  Any idea how to fix this?  I've posted on a lot of forums, with
no success.  My desktop looks horrible.


JackTheDipper-2 wrote:
> 
> 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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