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List:       kde-kimageshop
Subject:    Re: About cursors
From:       m_elter () t-online ! de (Matthias Elter)
Date:       1999-12-03 8:04:18
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Am Don, 02 Dez 1999 schrieb Tomas Furmonavicius:
> Current approach, as used in GIMP and KIS is to set X cursor to
> some bitmap. Of course it's fast and standard way. On the other
> hand - it sucks (sorry). Cursors are thick, messy, unpleasant to
> look at.
> 
> Wouldn't it be possible to draw cursor shapes directly to the
> canvas (AFAIK X cursor can be only black and white ?) XORing it's
> and background's colors? Cursors in Photoshop are drawn this way -
> they are nice and functional.
> 
> Also I don't think, that we should have different cursors for
> all different tools. Visual feedback is not a big deal - if you
> switch various tools often, it's only harder to get used to all
> these different cursors. Again, Photoshop is a good example.
> There are two main groups of cursors - painting and pointing.
> Cursors can have 2 modes - precise (drawn as a sight) and not
> precise (drawn as pencil, brush, or smth.else). Painting cursors
> can also be drawn as a circle indicating size of an active brush.

It's possible to draw the cursors directly on the canvas and to set the X
cursor to transparent. But I'm not sure if we really want this. X cursors
are so damn fast and on many systems hardware accelerated. Yes they are b/w only
but do we really need colored or greyscale cursors. What do other people think
about this?

You are right about the number of cursors we need. One cursor per tool
is perhaps to much.

Greetings, Matthias

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Matthias Elter
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