https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92374
Bug ID: 92374
Summary: UI: Update the old black&white custom mouse cursors
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
When LibreOffice needs to use a custom cursor, which the underlying OS does not
provide, it currently uses some really old renderings (which I guess might date
back even to 90-ies) for those custom cursors.
Needless to say, these cursors look ugly. It would be great to have them
updated. And if "ugly" is not reason enough, how about "all of these cursors
are only defined in one size, thus completely disregarding hi-dpi screens (for
example, even stock Windows 7 aero_arrow cursor contains two renderings of the
cursor: 32x32 and 48x48, both in 32-bit colors).
At the same time, perhaps it would make sense to also drop the ones that are
not used anywhere in LibO (I couldn't find any uses of some of the cursors).
Additionally, I'm sure there are cases where we are using custom cursors even
though the OS provides us with stock ones. I've cleaned that up for Windows in
bugs #53148 and #53151, but the situation is likely unchanged for OS X (e.g.
#52263, which probably requires special consideration) and Linux.
Current cursor files reside in the following places in the source tree:
Windows: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/vcl/win/source/src
OS X: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/vcl/osx/res/cursors
Linux:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/vcl/inc/unx/x11_cursors and
probably
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/vcl/unx/generic/dtrans
I found it's probably easiest to look for the places defining cursors by
Grokking for the word 'airbrush':
http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/search?q=airbrush&project=core. Airbrush is one
of the cursors that appears to be defined, but never used.
By the way, it might be nice to also generate Unix cursors from PNG files and
hotspot definitions during compile time instead of having to define them as two
header files. This would make them actually viewable and easier to replace.
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