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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KControl root cursor applet
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       1999-07-19 12:16:30
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jo Dillon wrote:
> I've written a KControl applet which allows users to set the mouse cursor
> on the root window. It works fine, but I don't want to limit the user
> to just the Qt standard cursors; what do people think is the best way of
> handling custom ones?
> 
> A tab on the applet with a simple bitmap editor - seems a bit bloated
> 
> A facility for importing bitmap files from a paint tool - they'd need
>   to be 1bpp bitmaps, both of the same size, and it means some fiddling is
>   required to for the user to create them

Allow to load pixmaps. They can have a shape.
Require that they only have two colors plus the shape (color "None").
Or dither them if they have more colors... ;-)

--Stefan

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