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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Inclusion of cursor themes in kdebase
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2008-06-25 13:21:28
Message-ID: 200806251521.28255.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Tuesday 24 of June 2008, 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)

 It is also broken, because that resets any possibly previously set 
$XCURSOR_PATH value.

 And the other thing that it breaks is the work done to prevent loading of any 
KDE libraries before the splash (for a visually better login sequence). See 
the two last startkde.cmake commits for the same story.

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Lubos Lunak
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