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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Three separate discussions about mouse pointers on three different lists
From:       Christian A =?iso-8859-1?q?Str=F8mmen=20=5BNumber1=2FNumeroUno=5D?= <number1 () rea
Date:       2001-03-10 22:08:05
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On Saturday 10. March 2001 17:14, CiAsA S'Nuey Boark wrote:
> On Friday 09 March 2001 02:53 pm, Dave Leigh wrote:
> > I apologize most profusely to those who may have seen this message
> > before. I've had a little trouble the mailer responding to this
> > particular message.
> >
> > On Thursday 08 March 2001 04:28, Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel wrote:
> > > I tried this once, and it sucks. First of all, the mouse image will be
> > > way behind where the X-Server thinks the mouse is, and secondly, you
> > > will loose the differently shaped cursors for example on the corners of
> > > the window, if you chase the hotspot with your image.
> >
> > I think this is worth a second look. When I'm in Konqueror and I drag a
> > thumbnail, it stays right with the mouse, no problem, even if it's
> > multicoloured and relatively large, and even though my machine only turns
> > in a paltry 599 bogomips.  At this point it would be difficult to
> > convince me that a pseudocursor would be too slow.
>
> How would kde handle the use of non kde apps though?  Dont the apps have
> final say over what the cursor would look like.  so if your trying to drag
> something in gmc, the cursor is supposed to change shape to represent
> dragging something, but would kde still draw its own colored cursor instead
> of gmc's cursor.  or would they both be drawn? (colored cursor on bottom
> with black and white cursor on top).  Personally, I'd say that this is not
> the job for kde, but instead a job for the xfree86 guys, or at least a
> cross desktop standards group.

But their not doing it.. Let's stop discussing who's in charge of this and do 
it ourselves...

Malte is currently working on this, and he made it work perfectly, his only 
problem is that he can't seem to get it to notice when the underlaying 
mouse-cursor changes (like when it's busy and so on).. so anybody that feel 
like helping him could email him :)

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