Re: Minutes for release-team - 2003-01-08

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes:

> On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 15:15, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > Also related, in the Mouse cappplet, the cursor themes don't work. Maybe
> > > we should put that off until 2.2.1"
> > 
> > > Is this a regression from 2.0 ?
> > 
> > Not really. What wasn't mentioned here was that the cursor changes won't
> > work with XFree86 4.3, because it has new cool cursor support. The fix for
> > that will come with 2.2.1.
> 
> Yes, the new XFree stuff is pretty cool, and we will probably be using
> it for other accessibility purposes.  So I guess you're saying that the
> existing cursor themes will continue to work with XFree 4.2.X...

Exactly.  That code hasn't changed since 2.0.x and (AFAIK) isn't broken.
For XFree 4.3, we're going to have to figure something out soonish.
However, I don't think we can block 2.2 over this.

Thanks,
-Jonathan