Description of problem: Since a week or two, each time I launch Nautilus it provides another background color in the file view. Changing the color via menu doesn't really help, because the colors seem to be mapped wrongly: currently for example, Nautilus started with a black background. Assinging a white background results in a black one, assigning a yellow background results in a blue one, and so on. Using the "reset" background randomizes it again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.20.0-6.fc8
I have a similar (probably the same) color issue. It is not related to starting nautilus, however. Every new nautilus window I open uses a random new background color. I use the same build of nautilus. As a workaround creating small white (or whatever non-random color you prefer) PNG image, adding that to the nautilus patterns and using it as the folder background will behave as expected. This might have minor performance and memory usage implications - it is much easier on my eyes though.
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