cursor spec

[Jerome Leclanche]

Seeing as there is renewed activity on the list, it'd be nice to know
what's going on with these.
J. Leclanche


2014-04-10 13:10 GMT+02:00 Philipp A. <flying-sheep at web.de>:
> Hi,
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> So what’s going on?
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> Does any one of you have edit rights on that wiki and wants to put it in?
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> I’d like to patch firefox with it once it’s nailed down, and i think the
> evidence of usage is enough.
>
> Best, phil
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> 2014-04-07 17:38 GMT+02:00 Philipp A. <flying-sheep at web.de>:
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>> 2014-04-07 15:15 GMT+02:00 Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> All the web browsers already use the same convention, don't they? If
>>> so, it should probably be added, yes.
>>> J. Leclanche
>>
>>
>> they use the name in the CSS, but implementations are… complicated.
>>
>> under the hood, firefox and chrome use gdk_cursor_new, which does NOT use
>> the spec names (e.g. it uses “plus”, not “cell”)
>>
>> the gdk cursor type is a direct mirror of the XLib constants, and indeed
>> gdk_cursor_new thinly wraps XLib
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>> https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Cursors.html#GdkCursorType
>>
>> however, i got a patch in that adds more robust behavior to firefox:
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>> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/068ed8d0e7c2
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>> i’ll file another bug with patch to get in vertical-text and the zoom
>> things once the latter are added to the spec.
>>
>> 2014-04-07 16:24 GMT+02:00 Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>:
>>
>>> Are there implementations already using this?
>>>
>>> We'd be happy having this added in GNOME.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> i researched a bit, and there are quite a few cursor themes which do have
>> it, and all use zoom-in and zoom-out (except for one, that uses zoomIn and
>> zoomOut. but since no other cursor has camelCase, i think we should ignore
>> that)
>>
>> i think toolkit maintainers are hesistant to add support until there’s
>> some agreed-upon name (that’s speculation, though)
>>
>> best, phil
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