On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 17:27:18 +0100 Davide Andreoli <d...@gurumeditation.it> said:
> Il giorno ven 8 feb 2019 alle ore 16:50 Carsten Haitzler < > ras...@rasterman.com> ha scritto: > > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 13:41:06 +0100 Davide Andreoli <d...@gurumeditation.it> > > said: > > > > > Il giorno ven 8 feb 2019 alle ore 12:16 Boris Faure <bo...@fau.re> ha > > > scritto: > > > > > > > Hi :) > > > > > > > > I know we're about to close EFL 1.22 and I might be too late to make > > > > this request. > > > > > > > > In the foreseeable future, I'd love to make Terminology hide the > > > > mouse over cursor after some delay of it not moving. Sadly, elementary > > > > and EFL in general, lack an API to do so. I've opened ticket T7646 to > > > > add that to EFL (I have not produced the code to make it possible). > > > > This feature has been requested in Terminology about 4 years ago and > > > > we failed at delivering it. > > > > > > > > > > Indeed this is a longstanding request, rage and epymc implemented > > > some "hacks" to hide the mouse cursor, and they do not always work > > > as expected. So a + from my side. (I'm not willing to implement this > > myself) > > > > I'm not so sure it's a hack. We have APIs to set mouse cursors on specific > > widgets in elm. If the mouse is over that widget the cursor for that > > widget is > > shown. A global "don't show pointer" is also a hack in that it is brute > > force > > and you can't make it vary depending where the pointer is in that window so > > you are then using the current method to be more specific when needed > > anyway > > and then having to figure out the interaction now between 2 properties > > rather > > than a single one. I'm not sure other solutions are going to be less of a > > hack > > in the end. > > > > i also haven't noticed it being unreliable. > > > > It is not unreliable in rage because rage is simple (in terms of widgets > hierarchy). > In epymc there can be lots of other widgets that appear and disappear on > top of > the videoplayer widget (like dialogs, subtitles text, multimedia controls, > notification, etc). > The "hack" I have done is the same as the rage one (a trasparent widget on > top of the stack, > with cursor blank) and it not reliable: sometimes, quite randomly, when a > new widget > is created (below the transparent one) the mouse pointer is show again. That doesn't justify a special blank cursor api/mode. that means there is a bug in cursor-per-object handling and it would affect any custom cursor set on an object. :) > And frankly a transparent widget on top of all just to hide the mouse > cursor is what > I call an hack. > > > > > > With the blank style terminology could do it over everything, over just the > > terminals (leaving the ptr to appear in the settings and other controls), > > on a > > specific terminal only, or just do the "put a button above everything" > > method > > etc. ... > > > > > cheers > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there something I can do (while not making the patch to EFL > > myself) > > > > to make this feature come sooner to EFL? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Boris Faure > > > > Pointer Arithmetician > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > > > > -- > > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > > Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com > > > > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
