On 11/26/2014 10:59 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > if everywhere else you mean over applications - they set their own cursors. e > is not in charge of that. e's cursor is set on the root window and otherwise > on > its own content (titlebar etc.). are you using the default theme or some other > theme? it could be that your theme has changed just the standard normal e > cursor but not the resize/move etc. cursors and thus the ones it didnt change > work...
It's the default theme. This is beginning to make sense. > then you have a disagreement with the theme designer who designed everything > to > go together. let's take your argument further. > > scale 2x is fine for everything.. except checkboxes! i can't use them. let me > scale those separately. but no. not just checkboxes. i find the close button > too small - can i have just a separate scale for the close button? ... need i > go on. No, but the cursor is omnipresent and should supersede all application-specific widgets like checkboxes. I understand what you are saying, but I think there should be a way to override whatever object sets the cursor size. I also find it hard to imagine that an application developer would specify the size of the cursor used within her application: surely it should just inherit its size from the surrounding environment, as it does in lesser interfaces than e :-) > what you are saying is that unless we go and provide a special scaling > control for every single element of the screen, just in case you don't like > the > size of that one special thing... "it's broken". sorry - i don't buy your > argument. this basically requires an insanely large set of special cased > scaling values to apply and the need to mark everything with a special scale > class. that's just nuts. It certainly would be, but I am not arguing for that, just for the primacy of the cursor to be inherited by applications, not set indivually for each one. But that is obviously unattainable. > no - they just have better eyesight. not everyone magically becomes blind as a > bat when they get older. :) even then... you seem specifically immune to > detecting motion. regardless of clarity of eyesight, we are mentally attuned > in > our visual system to detecting motion - to hunt and to detect danger. even if > it's small... it moves and thus is a warning. It certainly is. > to me it seems you need less of a large cursor and more of a "find my cursor" > feature. Which exists in many systems, including Ubuntu (which is what underlies my e); pressing the Ctrl key alone used to flash the cursor location. But that has now been removed for unfathomable reasons, which is why I am seeking an alternative. ///Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
