On 02/20/11 03:24 AM, Mark Kettenis wrote: >> From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> >> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:36:38 -0800 >> >> Stop hardcoding it to '*'. Allows setting a resource with no value to >> display " " to advance the cursor without drawing text. > > What's the motivation for this change? Giving users more knobs to > play with isn't necessarily going to make them happier.
Patches 2 & 3 in that series were motivated by solving https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32794 and giving users a choice of usability vs. shoulder-surfing risk. (I'd also hoped to give a choice of a nicer looking character than '*', but the code is very much hardcoded to single-byte characters at the moment, so can't take utf-8 values such as '●' or '•' yet.) I've reworked them a bit and will repost soon. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
