Bug#788961: nautilus: desktop icon labels need white font shadow to see on dark background image

[Mark Hedges]

Package: nautilus
Version: 3.14.1-2
Severity: minor

I'm using xfce4.  Not sure if this is the same way in gnome.

I have a desktop background with a dark color on the left side.

I set xfdesktop4 options to NOT display desktop icons, because
when I run nautilus, a duplicate set of desktop icons appears.

The desktop icons displayed by nautilus only have black text
for labels.  I cannot read them at all against the dark background.

The label characters need to have a white shadow offset by one
pixel X and Y so that they are visible against a dark background.

Thanks.

Mark

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.22-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.14.1-1
ii  gvfs                       1.22.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.19-18
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcairo2                  1.14.0-2.1
ii  libexempi3                 2.2.1-2
ii  libexif12                  0.6.21-2
ii  libgail-3-0                3.14.5-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.42.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-data            2.42.1-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-10      3.14.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.14.5-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a    3.14.1-2
ii  libnotify4                 0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.8-3
ii  libselinux1                2.3-2
ii  libtracker-sparql-1.0-0    1.2.4-2
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-5
ii  nautilus-data              3.14.1-2
ii  shared-mime-info           1.3-1

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  eject                      2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-sushi                3.12.0-2+b1
ii  gvfs-backends              1.22.2-1
ii  librsvg2-common            2.40.5-1

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  atril [pdf-viewer]     1.8.1+dfsg1-4
ii  brasero                3.11.4-1.1
ii  eog                    3.14.1-1
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]    3.14.1-2
ii  totem                  3.14.0-2
ii  tracker                1.2.4-2
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]      2.2.0~rc2-2
ii  vlc-nox [mp3-decoder]  2.2.0~rc2-2
ii  xdg-user-dirs          0.15-2

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