[Xcb] cursorfont definitions for XCB?

Julien Danjou julien at danjou.info
Tue Jun 8 01:41:30 PDT 2010


On Tue, Jun 08 2010, Barton C Massey wrote:

> I've wondered whether XC_shuttle was a literal space
> shuttle.
>   http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/appendix/b/
> I've always suspected it to be related to the UI control
> known as a "shuttle" that acts as a sort of rotating
> physical scrollbar for video or audio.  It might make sense
> to have a special cursor for a software shuttle control.
>
> How many of the X cursor font glyphs are mappable to
> something in Unicode?  It might conceivably be nice to
> produce a version of the cursor font for modern apps that
> mapped just those glyphs that aren't in Unicode to the
> Unicode user-defined space.  For example, this would make it
> easier to write documentation with cursor glyphs in it.

I don't want to stop the party, but isn't that kinda useless anyway?  I
mean, everybody out there is using libXcursor, and I'm trying to port it
to XCB currently.

I mean, wouldn't it much useful to talk about my work rather than adding
cursors *nobody* wants to use ? :-)

-- 
Julien Danjou
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