Rough proposal for a cursor-geometry protocol

[Campbell Barton]

On 24-12-20 7:48 PM, Simon Ser wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This has been discussed before, with an XCursor configuration protocol
> proposal:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/21
> 
> However that approach turned out to be quite complex, and a bit
> backwards (back-and-forth and duplicated work in compositors and clients),
> and locked us into the XCursor spec (with a trickier evolution to a new
> cursor standard).
> 
> Instead, we've standardized a protocol to set semantic cursor shapes:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/tree/main/staging/cursor-shape?ref_type=heads
> 
> Does that help?

It's not a solution because it doesn't work with custom-cursors (cursors 
created by the application at run-time for e.g).

> Simon