Make Gnome Shell desktop icon text colours brighter (white)

[ghost]

Hello, I'm using the Greybird theme on both Gnome and Lxde; and the desktop icons text is really difficult to see. These are comparison snapshots between Greybird and Adawita themes:

Greybird:

Other theme:

When a high detail background is used:

Greybird:

Other theme:

[jEsuSdA]

Here a workaround that maybe can solve the problem:

Edit your .gtkrc-2.0 file and add this lines:

# Iconos transparentes
style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 20
XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 100
XfdesktopIconView::ellipsize-icon-labels = 1
XfdesktopIconView::tooltip-size = 128

XfdesktopIconView::shadow-x-offset = 1
XfdesktopIconView::shadow-y-offset = 1
XfdesktopIconView::shadow-color = "#000000"
XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-x-offset = 2
XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-y-offset = 2
XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-color = "#000000"

XfdesktopIconView::cell-spacing = 6
XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 6
XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 2.5

base[NORMAL] = "#000000"
base[SELECTED] = "#000000"
base[ACTIVE] = "#000000"

fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"
fg[SELECTED] = "#FFFFFF"
fg[ACTIVE] = "#FFFFFF"
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

[ochosi]

Hi, I use neither Gnome nor LXDE so I don't support either very actively. What versions of Gnome/LXDE are these?

[ghost]

Hello, the code above did not work.

I'm using GNOME Shell 3.26.1 (on ubuntu 17.10). I'm not sure about the LXDE version but it is the one included in xubuntu 17.10.

[ochosi]

re: above code: I'm not surprised it didn't work, neither Gnome-shell nor LXDE use xfdesktop...

[ghost]

I have tried modifying different parts of the code, but I haven't managed to find which lines change the desktop icons text colour. Do you have an idea, kindly?

[ochosi]

Sorry, I would have to google/investigate myself and without being able to test, that's tapping in the dark even more than you are.

[DarkTrick]

I can't test with the mentioned environments, but perhaps this is fixed now, because we have shadow below the font?

[ochosi]

Let's close this for now. We don't have great support for Gnome Shell and this is actually theming support for an extension. Patches/PRs welcome!