Re: Box shaped cursor in caret mode?

[Xan Lopez <xan gnome org>]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Fernando <ferkiwi gmail com> wrote:
> Hello
> I've started to use the caret browsing and I found out that it's
> better than I thought. It's nice to browse without using the mouse
> (specially in a laptop) however, there are some problems I have
> regarding the visualization of the caret cursor, in some websites it
> is nearly invisible.
> Is it possible to make the caret mode cursor be box-shaped (like in
> emacs, terminals or the cursor in gedit when insert-mode is
> activated). I think that this would greatly improve the visibility of
> the cursor (sometimes it's hard to know where it is).
>
> Also this will make it easier to recognize it avoiding confusions with
> the cursor or the input boxes. Sometimes the caret cursor moves inside
> an input box and looks like you can edit the content of the box, but
> you can't. This is confusing and sometimes it has led me to
> incomfortable mistypings. I think that a blinking box shape will be
> specially apropiate since it is much more noticeable and in epiphany
> there's no insert-mode in input boxes anyway, so the different shape
> will retain its different meaning.
>

Epiphany is not responsible for any of this, you need to forward your
suggestions to Mozilla or WebKit, depending on the backend you are
using (I know you are using Mozilla in this case, since caret-mode
does not yet work in WebKit).

Cheers, Xan

> Thank you
> --
> Fernando
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