On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 09:00, Gary Greene wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 30 March 2003 5:17 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > > Maybe you could steal the sample shots from kde-look.org > > > > > > > > The shots themselves are the easy part .... > > > > > > Buchan, > > > > > > Being from the school of simple ideas for simple minds (mine) Why not > > > just do a small series of html pages with shots of each "set" of > > > cursors. Then a script that calls $BROWSER name of 1st page. > > > > I will consider it, but I have more important things to do IMHO, and I > > believe both KDE and Gnome should have UIs for this (to go with the > > themes). Under Windows9x, mouse cursors were parts of themes. > > > > And I think that the state of some KDE themes leaves things to be desired, > > since some themes do not set the Window decorations, icons or backgrounds. > > > > Maybe Mandrakesoft needs to take some initiative here and make Galaxy a > > complete theme under both KDE and GNOME, including backgrounds, cursor > > themes, sounds, etc, instead of just being a set of consistent widget sets > > and window decorations. Galaxy is very good, but it still isn't a theme > > IMHO. As evidenced by the fact that when I enable a different theme, and > > then try to restore Galaxy, I have to run 4 different KDE Control Center > > modules. The GNOME state is slightly better. > > Don't fret for too long about that. KDE 3.2 will have a much improved > theme/style/tweak manager in it. Myself and a few others in the KDE > development team, including Mosfet (who looks to be heading this > mini-project) have been discussing this very thing on kde-devel. This theme > manager would handle cursors, ksplash/ml themes, fully themed kdm screens and > UI elements such as styles, etc. If there are features that people would like > to see in this, post them my way.
One thing that Buchans cursor them program has brought up for me would be this. In IceWM there is a way to "restart" the wm without logging out. Would it be possible to have something like this in kde? Since to gain full affect of the cursor them it does need a restart it would be helpful.
