cursors and input

[Brian Paul]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> I'm beginning to wonder if cursors should be present at all, or left to
> the X server to composite on its own....

Well, the X server is certainly free to do that if it wishes.  I think 
an EGL extension for cursors would still be good to have through.


> Again, I'm thinking about multiple user cases, and multiple input
> devices.
> 
> The concept that there is only a single cursor in X is arguably a bug,
> and that having single hardware cursor support isn't more than an
> optimization.

Agreed.


> So I wonder if cursors exist at all, if the interface should have
> support for multiple cursors/sprites...

Yes.  It would be a simple matter to design the API to support an 
arbitrary number of cursors per screen.

-Brian