reassign 530750 libxcursor1 retitle 530750 please provide default set of icons as alternative in x-cursor-theme thanks
On Wed, 27 May 2009, MP wrote: > Once I installed KDE4, oxygencursors got autoinstalled due to > dependencies. Before that, I had no cursor theme installed, therefore > default X cursors got used. Now some ugly black cursors appeared > instead of that. > > I tried: > update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme > to specify that no theme should be used > > But I see only 37 cursor themes from the oxygen cursors. No way to get > to previous state "no cursor theme used", as oxygencursors are strong > dependency, no way to select "none". > > I think update-alternatives should offer "none" as one of the options > in some cases like this one, where not having an alternative installed > is reasonable choice (since then default X cursors get used) Well, I don't agree with this. update-alternative goes to great length to ensure the availability of the generic name registered and it sure would create problems if we let people select a "none" choice that would disable the alternative. Furthermore, there's no clean way to do this without changing the file format used by update-alternatives. So it's a reasonable constraint of update-alternatives and anyone choosing to use the alternatives system should live with this limitation/feature. I suggest that whatever package provides the default set of cursors also registers itself in the alternative... apparently the default set of cursors is hardcoded somewhere but I'm not sure where. I'll reassign to libxcursor1 as it's the one that makes use of /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme (according to Julien Cristau). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
