On 23.10.2016 16:20, Joel Kulesza wrote:
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 1:02 AM, racoon <xraco...@gmx.de <mailto:xraco...@gmx.de>> wrote: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. He or she brought this on themselves and must live with the consequence. Red may become blue when they've figured out their mistake. Or, they just don't use red backgrounds. Please be wary of saving users from themselves with no recourse especially when sensible defaults are provided. I know no applications where you can set the cursor color. Two immediately spring to mind: OSX Terminal & cross-platform Vim.
I guess these are very limited applications as to the changes that occur background color wise during usage.
Certainly, the users can get themselves into trouble when they change highlighting to conflict with normal text entry and now things have disappeared. However, they've made it their own and no developer should fault them for it. If it doesn't work, they can change it to something else. Interestingly, a cottage industry as sprung up around providing color schemes for terminal applications and Vim.
Every user interface provides certain default that can't be changed by the user because the user might not (and does not want to) consider all the consequences. However, I personally have no problem with having a preference for inverted cursor in general.
P.S. It's interesting that my two most relied-upon applications are named with three letters.
OSX is no application. ;) I know you mean LyX of course. Daniel
