Re: Mouse Cursors in Theme Preferences

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 11:07 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le mercredi 13 septembre 2006 à 23:15 +0100, Thomas Wood a écrit :
> > Following on from the recent capplet integration discussions, I'd like 
> > to bring up bug 338744 [1]. This is about moving the mouse cursor theme 
> > options into the theme capplet. Several people have brought this to my 
> > attention recently because there was a request that gnome-themes could 
> > somehow install a default cursor theme for Clearlooks, thus bringing up 
> > the idea that metathemes should contain cursor theme information.
> > 
> > Would anyone object to moving this functionality? [2]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think the themes tab makes sense for the themes capplet and the mouse
> capplet too. The mouse capplet would look weird without that tab though.
> Maybe the mouse and keyboard capplets should be merged to an "input
> capplet" and then the themes can be moved? 
> 
You mean the current keyboard applet (included the shortcuts tab) with
all its tabs? If so, I would at least remove the 2 layout tabs and add
them to a separate dialog (opened via a button on the Keyboard tab).

> Making possible for the theme index to list a mouse cursor seems a good
> idea to me. No need to have a "cursor theme" tab for that, it can be
> done the same way than for a background by example, no?
> 
yes, I think so. Anyway, I am meeting today with a girl from the
usability team at novell and will bring all the suggestions for capplets
merging and see if they can do some usability testing and bring up their
suggestions. So, if you have any other ideas than the ones brought so
far on this list, please let me know before 6PM CET, so that I add them
to my list for the meeting.
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>