The icon labels, with my Xfce default theme, were plain white, no transparency, not so nice.
This can be changed in the ~/.gtkrc-2.0
file. Here is mine:
style "xfdesktop-icon-view" { XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 30 font_name="Sans Bold" base[NORMAL] = "#aaccee" base[SELECTED] = "#aaccee" base[ACTIVE] = "#aaccee" fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" fg[SELECTED] = "#98fc66" fg[ACTIVE] = "#d40000" } widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"
You can control the transparency with XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = x
(x = 0 will set a fully transparent label) and play with the font style and color.
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