When I run Nautilus as the desktop, it flashes grey, then a purple-black
gradient (my gradient setting if I wasn't using a bitmap background) then
displays the image I've selected.  However, this image is light in the top left
corner so I cannot read the labels on the icons as they are white, and have no
drop shadow, outline, border etc.  If I could either change the colour of the
text or make Nautilus draw a black box first behind the text, that would be
excellent.



------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-10-24 10:08:08 ----

There's a heuristic in place to choose dark text or light text. It sounds like
the heuristic is failing in this case because the user's background image is
overall dark enough to cause the desktop to use light text, but the part of the
image where icons are put by default is light.

Assigning to Andy to ponder a good solution. We might have to either allow the
user to choose the font color, or put some sort of (translucent?) box around it
a la the Macintosh.



------- Additional Comments From andy@eazel.com 2000-10-30 13:59:00 ----

Our text color calculation falls apart for the gradient case, since it's global
and gradients allow it to be light in some places and dark in others.

I guess we should draw a box around the icons on the desktop like gmc and the
Mac



------- Additional Comments From don@eazel.com 2000-12-15 09:32:16 ----

Batch move all 254 PR3 P5 bugs to 1.0.1.




------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-02-09 11:28:00 ----

Duane is now the proud owner for Desktop QA.



------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2001-03-07 13:51:09 ----

I have this problem with my current background image also. The image is
predominantly darkish, but the upper-left area where icons go by default is
lightish, and the white text is virtually impossible to see. I thought my icons
had no labels for awhile.

Allowing the user to drag-and-drop a color onto the text to change it for that
directory seems like a decent solution if we don't want to draw it with a
border. Note that this can be an issue in any directory, it's just more common
on the desktop because people are more used to putting background images there.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-15 15:41:36 ----

If any new features are being considered for Nautilus 1.2, I'd like to note that
fixing this is the most-requested feature I've seen on #nautilus post-1.0.



------- Additional Comments From dominik@schnitzer.at 2001-03-23 08:27:02 ----

Created an attachment (id=1441)
unreadable icon text, on difficult desktop wallpapers (Yes it's the MIR Spacestation ;-)




------- Additional Comments From dominik@schnitzer.at 2001-03-23 08:31:04 ----

Possible solution for making icon-captions readable for difficult wallpapers,
could be done via creating a dark shadow around them (same effect, Like when you
select icons on the desktop)



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-26 11:18:50 ----

SPAAAAAAAAAM! 

(Jon Allen has taken these components; QA Assigning bugs to him.)



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-30 14:15:51 ----

*** Bug 46771 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:46 -------