On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 03:21:13PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:01:35PM +0000, John Levon wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:56:54AM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >> > >>> I indeed did the change myself in 1.5 because I found the 1 pixel > >>> difficult to see. > >> I do not believe personal preference is a good enough reason to differ > >> from other applications. > >> > >> If there's a system-wide Qt preference (or KDE, Windows, etc.) then we > >> should obey that, otherwise we must be the same as /everything else/. > >> > >>> No, please wait, I like my 2-pixel cursor. I think the correct way is to > >>> put that in the preference setting dialog. Should be easy to do, any > >>> taker? > >> Please no. If you like it, hack it in your personal copy, not start > >> inventing things. We have enough unnecessary differences from other apps > >> :( > > > > I agree with John here. I also like having 1-pixel cursor... > > You mean on Cygwin, no problem, I can put this in the Unix grup ;-) > > But quite frankly, I don't understand what's so bad about letting the > user change the cursor width. I put that at the same level as the color. > I'd say it's an accessibility feature. Some people have difficulty to > locate the cursor when it is black and one-pixel wide.
I really think this is a matter of preferences. In some cases the cursor can be wider than the fonts, and this looks bad to my eyes. See attached images. -- Enrico
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