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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Inclusion of cursor themes in kdebase
From:       Urs Wolfer <uwolfer () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-06-24 20:16:14
Message-ID: 200806242216.14927.uwolfer () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 24 June 2008 21:49:41 Marco Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
> the Oxygen team has completed the work for a first "shippable" version of
> the oxygen mouse cursor theme, we hope to be able to put it in kdebase
> before the artwork freeze.
> the problem with them is that xcursor is a bit stupid and searches them in
> some hardcoded paths plus the environment variable XCURSOR_PATH, so since
> they should be installed in the icons folder that can also be
> not /usr/share/icons where it searches by default the env path must be set
>
> so i made a patch to the startkde script that sets the search path to
> `kde4-config --path icon` plus the standard hardcoded ones (i know it's
> ugly but otherwise it would not search in them anymore)
> the second patch sets the theme "Oxygen Zion" as default, since is the one
> with better contrast
>
> i would put the cursors themselves in kdebase/workspace/cursors since the
> wallpapers are in workspace already
>
> the files to be putted in now are at
> /trunk/playground/artwork/cursors
>
> they are only the final generated ones, since won't be really feasible
> to "build" them during the kde build, because it involves png generation
> from inkscape, so the svgs and the other files needed for generation would
> reside playground for the time being..
>
> Any comments? could these two patches cause problems i've not tought about?

I have tested the startkde changes. Works fine here.

No objections from here.

Bye
urs
 
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