[PATCH] desktop icon appearance

[Christopher Blauvelt]

On Jan 21, 2008 9:29 PM, Craig Duquette <cduquette at gmail.com> wrote:

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