On 22.10.2016 16:49, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Le 22/10/2016 à 14:53, racoon a écrit :
On 22.10.2016 14:38, Joel Kulesza wrote:
With the ability to tweak the cursor color, I agree with Daniel's
suggestion to implement the inverted color patch.
Sorry, I did not make myself clear before. I am suggesting to not let
the user choose the cursor color but instead enforce inverted color. I
think an inverted cursor has the benefit of being visible in any
situation while the downsides seem small. I think most people are either
working with a very light or very dark background. In that case the
cursor would be almost black or almost white, respectively. I think that
is the setting most people use anyway.
As someone who has written his fair share of sentences containing the
words "most people", I can tell you this: this is wrong. There are
people who have set their cursor to bright red for the whole OS and will
complain if LyX does not do that (I do not know them, but I am sure that
they exist). There are people who have some strange color layout that
makes no sense to you and would not be happy with your inverted cursor.
However, since there are clear benefits of an inverted cursor (think
about the poor person with red cursor who happens to land in an inset
that has a red background by default, like insets of modules not
available on her system), there should at least be an option in the
prefs then. If you are against making this optional I think the only
sensible default is an inverted cursor.
I would not say that this is a well-known UI paradigm, and there are
probably reasons for that...
I know no applications where you can set the cursor color. There are
some that don't have an inverted cursor. Like Mozilla Thunderbird which
I am just writing in this email. However, this is a bad decision on
their side since someone might want to write their emails in html format
and set the background color to black. Then the fun is over.
As LyX stands now, it is often very difficult to put the mouse cursor
between two insets, because insets, contrary to characters, are active
beasts. If you click a bit to close to them, something happens. This is
why some spacing has to be kept to some extent.
It is actually already now impossible due to the extra space around
insets that are counted as interactive area of insets (see my answer to
Enrico).
Daniel
