Should this be "core"?

[Andreas Pokorny]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:56 AM, Christopher James Halse Rogers <
chris at cooperteam.net> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Daniel van Vugt <
> daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Named cursors were not my first choice. There was some arguing when it
>> was proposed. I personally prefer a set enums, which matches what common
>> toolkits use:
>>
>>
>> https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Cursors.html#GdkCursorType
>>    http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qt.html#CursorShape-enum
>>
>>
>> http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/spec3/node28.html#SECTION000513000000000000000
>>
>> But you can't kill named cursor support unless you replace it with
>> equivalent enums.
>>
>
> You absolutely can. An existence proof is Wayland, which has no such
> support.
>
> We might *want* to support named cursors, because we think it'll make it
> more likely that clients will use the right cursor themes etc, but even
> here there doesn't need to be server support - it can be implemented in the
> client library.
>
>
For that purpose yes. But as soon as shells want to override that, and or
make decisions based on the selected cursor. However I am not sure how
useful that would be, given that the client might just provide a buffer for
the cursor.

regards
Andreas
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