On Jan 21, 2008 9:29 PM, Craig Duquette <<a href="mailto:cduquette@gmail.com">cduquette@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Monday 21 January 2008 19:59:07 Christopher Blauvelt wrote:<br>> Well, since I made the commit let me present why I made the<br>changes. I had<br>> been working with David Vignoni to make icons on the desktop
<br>prettier<br>> since, they were rather ugly still. First, we fixed the grid size to<br>> something a little more appealing. The major reason we decided<br>to get rid<br>> of<br>> backgrounds in IconApplet was that they were always a different
<br>size.<br>> While it makes it slightly more difficult to read the text on light<br>> backgrounds I really think that it reduces clutter on the desktop.<br>This<br>> was also David's thought as well. To be honest this is the first that
<br>I've<br>> heard of people liking the background as everyone I've showed it to<br>> remarked how much better it looks. Are there any other reason<br>than, "it's<br>> hard to see the text on light backgrounds"?
<br>> Chris<br><br></div>I liked the icon changes you made. I thought it was an improvement<br>over having a background.<br><br>I think the desktop icons should mimic the functionality of Dolphin (no<br>background by default, but on hover the background is created).
<br>Either that or dolphin needs to have backgrounds on their icons by<br>default. Cmon we need a unified look and feel throughout the<br>desktop :).<br><br>Is there ever going to be support for selecting multiple icons on the
<br>desktop? If so how do you guys plan to differentiate selected icons<br>from non-selected icons? Many users associate a background with an<br>icon being selected..<br><br>~Craig<br>_______________________________________________
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</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>It's on my TODO. I'll show the background of selected Icons.<br>