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List:       haiku-development
Subject:    [haiku-development] Re: Changing cursor color behaviour in
From:       "Axel =?windows-1252?q?D=F6rfler?=" <axeld () pinc-software ! de>
Date:       2010-10-27 18:53:58
Message-ID: 5444987451-BeMail () quad
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Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de> wrote:
> > I came to the conclusion that the color should be user-settable, 
> > but the
> > cursor should always blink between the selected color and it's
> > complementary. I'm not sure which color is used for blinking the 
> > cursor
> > right now, but it seems to be strangely chosen.

If it's already inverting the background color, I think it would be 
very strange to be able to set a color at all. It would also look 
strange in this case, depending on the actual background color, you 
would never just see the background as is.

> > What's your opinion on this ? Any other ideas on how it should work 
> > ?
> I know, others feel differently, but to be honest, just like the 
> whole 
> terminal color theming, I find a setting for the cursor color useless 
> clutter. Inverting would work fine, I guess. Picking a fixed 
> contrasty 
> color depending on the background (like black on light backgrounds 
> and 
> white on dark ones) would be another option.

+1

Bye,
   Axel.


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