It is actually not an upstream bug. The upstream (GNOME) provides some tricks that can lead to a near-perfect solution:
Put a "gtkrc-2.0" file in your home dir, with the following content: style "desktop-icon" { NautilusIconContainer::frame_text = 1 text[NORMAL] = "#000000" NautilusIconContainer::normal_alpha = 128 } class "GtkWidget" style "desktop-icon" Then run "killall nautilus" to see the effect immediately. This will set your desktop icon text color to black, and add a 50%-translucent, rounded box under icon text so that the icon text is always easily visible whether the wallpaper is light or dark. I recommend Ubuntu automatically create such a gtkrc-2.0 file as soon as a new user is created. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/643836 Title: desktop icon text hard to read on white backgrounds -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs