[indiana-discuss] Cursor theme for Indiana

[Stephen Hahn]

* Patrick Finch <Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM> [2008-01-17 21:26]:
> 
> Glynn Foster wrote:
> >
> >Stephen Hahn wrote:
> >>* Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> [2008-01-16 23:51]:
> >>>Hey there,
> >>>
> >>>Now that libXCursor has been integrated, it would be good to get a nice 
> >>>themed
> >>>cursor by default. Like most theme discussions, everyone has their own
> >>>favourite, but I think it would be good to pick something relatively 
> >>>neutral and
> >>>non-intrusive. If that proves to be not possible, then we'll just leave 
> >>>it as
> >>>is, but I believe it's a nice addition.
> >>>
> >>>Does anyone have any favourites that would be good candidates? I'm 
> >>>personally
> >>>using 'Neutral_Plus_Inv'. There's a whole bunch of them on
> >>>
> >>>  http://www.gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=36
> >>>
> >>>If you want to play around with a few, unpack the tarballs into ~/.icons 
> >>>and
> >>>select the new cursor theme in the Appearance preference dialog.
> >>  "Neutral_Plus_Inv" looks okay to me.  Is it easy enough to make the
> >>  default choice?
> >
> >Piece of cake. Shall I commit a patch?
> 
> Not wanting to apply brakes to anything, but wouldn't this be part of a 
> process to overhaul the whole desktop look and feel in line with new 
> branding?
> 
> I like it too, but shouldn't it be chosen in concert with other elements 
> of the desktop?  Or is it that easy to change that we might change again 
> later in the year?

  It sounds like it's easy to change.  My preference is to try it out,
  and see where we go next.  (I much prefer the wide text insertion mark
  ("I-beam") from Glynn's candidate cursor theme to the default X11
  equivalent.)

  - Stephen

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