On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, David Dawes wrote: > >Is there any consensus on whether the new (red) cursor theme should be > >the default in 4.3, or the traditional cursor shapes? > > Based on user feedback in several of our (Red Hat) beta releases > over the last few months, the redglass and whiteglass cursor > themes contain a combination of defects, missing cursors (causing > whiteglass to use redglass cursors instead sometimes), and human > interaction useability/accessability issues, my recommendation > would be to default to the core X cursors for 4.3.0, allowing > users to choose an alternate cursor theme if they desire. > > That gives the element of least surprise to long standing X > users for the time being until new cursors can be developed and > contributed that take the human factor into account also.
Although I personal like the large red cursor as it is easier to see on my 110 dpi screen, I very much agree with Mike that the default should be the same as it has always been. Perhaps xf86cfg should be extended to allow you to configure your cursor as well ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
