Hi, On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:56 AM, Christopher James Halse Rogers < ch...@cooperteam.net> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Daniel van Vugt < > daniel.van.v...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> Named cursors were not my first choice. There was some arguing when it >> was proposed. I personally prefer a set enums, which matches what common >> toolkits use: >> >> >> https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Cursors.html#GdkCursorType >> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qt.html#CursorShape-enum >> >> >> http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/spec3/node28.html#SECTION000513000000000000000 >> >> But you can't kill named cursor support unless you replace it with >> equivalent enums. >> > > You absolutely can. An existence proof is Wayland, which has no such > support. > > We might *want* to support named cursors, because we think it'll make it > more likely that clients will use the right cursor themes etc, but even > here there doesn't need to be server support - it can be implemented in the > client library. > > For that purpose yes. But as soon as shells want to override that, and or make decisions based on the selected cursor. However I am not sure how useful that would be, given that the client might just provide a buffer for the cursor. regards Andreas
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