Re: Changing mousepointer...

[Gregory McLean <gregm comstar net>]

> 
> On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > 
> > > > not really.  or at least I do not know of any way to do so.
> > > 
> > > "man xsetroot"
> > > 
> > > 	 -cursor cursorfile maskfile
> > 
> > The problem is that this only applies to the root window.
> > 
> 
> But with Gnome we also have control over many applications. 
> 
> All you'd need to do is define some stock cursor handles (I guess Gtk
> already has some, so there may be some Gtk modification involved, or this
> may be a Gtk-level issue). But basically you have apps ask for the
> GNOME_BUSY_CURSOR instead of loading their own hourglass, or
> GNOME_IBAR_CURSOR instead of their own I-bar, etc. Once this API is in
> place you can add customization at any time.

Actually its GDK that has the cursor control..

see gdk/gdkcursors.h to see which ones it knows about.

> 
> Standardization means customization, remember - as long as all the apps
> use the same API, you can globally customize. (thus the foolishness of
> those who post complaining that Gnome means loss of flexibility...)
> 
> Havoc
> 
> 
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