Re: Cursor names [was: Adjusting the 2.4 schedule]

[Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de>]

Am Mit, 2003-06-25 um 20.22 schrieb Keith Packard:
> Around 17 o'clock on Jun 25, Bill Haneman wrote:
> 
> > Given that we don't have cursor notifications from X yet, what's your best
> > suggestion as to how an assistive technology or service (for instance,
> > gnome-mag) can keep track of changes to the current cursor? 
> 
> I suggest we work on defining what support we need and then plan on 
> getting that into X.  One thing missing from the original XFIXES spec was 
> precisely the semantic labeling which we've been discussing here.
> 

Trying to relate this interesting discussion back to the pixbuf-cursor
API being proposed for 2.4: 

Does this mean we should add a gchar *role or gchar *name argument (or
both) to the proposed new cursor creation functions, to give apps a
chance to mark their "dancing bananas" animated cursor as a WAIT cursor?

Matthias