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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Three separate discussions about mouse pointers on three different lists
From:       Christian A =?iso-8859-13?q?Str=B8mmen=20=5BNumber1=2FNumeroUno=5D?= <number1 () re
Date:       2001-03-08 1:45:29
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I'm now starting to seriously wonder if I'm the only person in the whole 
world that's subscribed to these three lists (kde-devel, kde-core-devel, 
kde-look), 'cause each of them are having discussions about mousepointers, 
without the discussions being related at all.

Situation: X only allows two-colored mouse pointers (xsetroot has 
possibilites of having mouse pointers with many colors though)
Problem: Most people (no, I'm not talking about the coders, you're the 
minority) hate the black cursor that X uses.
Solution: kde-look had an interesting solution to this, something that 
probably will work (don't complain about cpu/memory usage for these reasons: 
1. if you don't want it, then don't enable it. 2. it's a freakin mouse 
pointer, it DOESN'T take up that much memory), to make it easy I've pasted 
the mail with the solution below:

<snap>
You know those toy programs that have a "cat" chase the "mouse"
cursor?  Well, what if you created a program that removed the real
cursor and just "followed" the pointer around by always being directly
on top of it.  If you had a fast enough machine, there shouldn't be
all that much lag.

Because the "cursor" would be a separate program, you could make it
any size or shape you wanted.
<snap>

some followups:
<snap>
Yeah, we could port the swarm screensaver to chase your mouse!
--
Actually, that's a really clever suggestion!  Not just for color and 
animation, but for some more mundane uses such as magnification of the mouse 
cursor, mouse trails, etc.
--
And how about a mouse cursor with a drop shadow ;-)
--
Oh, hell, why not?  A transparent, multicoloured, animated, drop-shadowed, 
mouse cursor with swarms of little cats chasing it and making swishing sounds 
as they move across the screen.  Oh, and if the cats catch the mouse, it 
should scream.
</snap>

So, if everybody interested in this take the journey over to kde-devel (I 
believe that's the most appropriate place for this..?), there's a chance that 
we could make this.

/me is getting tired of hearing about the ugly mouse pointer in XFree/kde the 
last 3-4 years...

Let's fix this people!  Anybody up for the job?


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