Set your desktop background color to be the same color that the bounding box
uses from the GTK theme. Now the bounding box is invisible.

Suggested fix:
Add one pixel around the edge of the bounding box that is the same color that
Nautilus has chosen for icon text. 

While fixing this it should be trivial to change the bounding box to have a
gradient like EFM had.

Here's some psudocode (assume opacity has 0=clear, 1=opaque)

DrawBoundingBox(left, bottom, right, top) {
  DrawFilledRectangle(left, bottom, 
                      right, top, 
                      gtk_active_color, .4 alpha); //draw base filled with some
transparency

//now draw the gradients (drawing concentric rectangles makes ugly corners)
  for(int n = 1; n < 10; n++) {
    DrawLine(left, top-n, 
             right, top-n, 
             gtk_active_color,  1-(n/10)); //draw top gradient

    DrawLine(left, bottom+n,
             right, bottom+n,
             gtk_active_color, 1-(n/10)); //draw bottom gradient
    DrawLine(left+n, top,
             left+n, bottom,
             gtk_active_color, 1-(n/10)); //draw left gradient
    DrawLine(right-n, top,
             right-n, bottom,
             gtk_active_color, 1-(n/10)); //draw bottom gradient
  }
  //finally draw the edge in a different color for clarity
  Draw1pxlRectangle(left,bottom, right, top, [same color as icon text]);
}



------- Additional Comments From bfrantzda@hmc.edu 2001-04-09 20:46:08 ----

It appears I was wrong. The bounding box color is determined by the Nautilus
theme, not the GTK theme. Either way, the problem exists :-)



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:18 -------