Filenames on the Desktop can't be seen properly with light backgrounds

[Aditya V]

To test:

Get a light background (pure white works, too) and copy a file to the desktop. Its name can barely be seen.

Using Nautilus as the desktop manager.

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

You mean you are getting something like this? Maybe we should see if there's a way to increase/darken the text shadow?

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

Yep, that's exactly what I mean. I think we should create a separate .css
file for this in gtk-3.0/apps/.

I'm not sure if this is possible (need to look at how Ambiance goes about
fixing this), but maybe we can add a colored box around the text or
something.

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

I just pushed r57 to trunk which darkens the text shadows a bit. Let me know if it's still an issue.

I myself would like a slight shadow going in all directions around the text, like a blurry outline (instead of just being a darker version of the same text offset by one pixel), but I'm not sure if that's possible, or how one would go about doing that.

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

Nope, still doesn't fix it. Attached is an image comparing Salience and
Ambiance (left and right sides, respectively).

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

Okay, in Ambiance it appears that the text shadow is being offset both horizontally and vertically, while in Salience r57 and below it is only being offset vertically. I changed Salience in r58 to also have a horizontal offset (albeit in a different direction), in addition to an unrelated change where I removed the text shadow for selected items.

How does it look now?

(Note: all of my changes are being made in gtk-3.0/desktop-items.css, so no need for a separate CSS file, we already have one. :) )

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

No, still not yet. Maybe just copy the same settings from Ambiance to Salience? They both use white as the desktop item color.

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

...okay, hopefully r61 does the trick. I found out that you actually can define multiple shadows on something using a comma-separated list.

[Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton)]

I'm marking as Fix Committed for now since I don't think the problem exists now. We now have a shadow for desktop items that goes all around the text label. Feel free to re-open if this still isn't satisfactory; in particular, let me know if the shadow is dark enough.

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

Yup, looks good. Retargeting for 1.0-beta.