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Review request for kde-workspace and Fredrik Höglund.
Description
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The "KDE Classic" mouse cursor theme was implemented in code to source cursor
images either from bundled XPMs or by rasterizing glyphs from the cursor font.
This was used only when changing the cursor theme for already-running
applications at runtime; for newly-started apps (and so including for new
sessions) things relied on the special "#kde_legacy#" theme name triggering an
equivalent fallback in Qt and libXcursor, by virtue of "#kde_legacy#" not
actually existing.
This system-level fallback behavior is no longer evident on modern systems,
instead the distro-supplied default cursor theme gets loaded. That meant the
"KDE Classic" theme no longer actually worked for newly-started applications
(and so also not after relogin).
As the new fallback behavior makes sense, pursueing an upstream "fix" is not
economical. This patch instead takes the approach of deleting the legacy code
and reimplementing the "KDE Classic" theme as a modern image-based cursor theme
by dumping the results of the old rasterization code into files.
This means losing support for theoretically-changable cursor fonts, however:
- It's doubtful any systems around today rely on custom cursor fonts.
- A mix of a custom cursor font and the XPMs bundled with the KCM would be ugly
anyway.
- This is all highly X-specific and likely of no use in future Wayland systems
anyway.
This change was pre-approved by Fredrik Höglund, the author of the code in
question (and of runtime cursor theme switching support in XFixes).
This patch is hard to do justice on ReviewBoard because it contains binary
files (the cursors) and symlinks (also to cursors, due to specifics of the
theme format). In order to test the actual commit, please use the
"drop-cursor-font-support" branch on
git://anongit.kde.org:clones/kde-workspace/hein/kde-workspace (it's a fresh
branch so it might not have made it to the mirrors at the time you read this).
This was branched from master minutes ago.
Diffs
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cursors/CMakeLists.txt b1f9c7a
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/00008160000006810000408080010102 PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/4498f0e0c1937ffe01fd06f973665830 PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/9081237383d90e509aa00f00170e968f PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/9d800788f1b08800ae810202380a0822 PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/X_cursor PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/all-scroll PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/bottom_left_corner PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/bottom_right_corner PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/bottom_side PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/center_ptr PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/closedhand PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/col-resize PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/cross PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/crosshair PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/dnd-move PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/dnd-no-drop PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/dnd-none PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/e-resize PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/e29285e634086352946a0e7090d73106 PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/fcf21c00b30f7e3f83fe0dfd12e71cff PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/fleur PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/forbidden PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/hand1 PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/hand2 PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/ibeam PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/left_ptr PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/left_side PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/move PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/n-resize PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/not-allowed PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/openhand PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/pirate PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/pointer PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/pointing_hand PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/right_ptr PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/right_side PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/row-resize PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/s-resize PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/sb_h_double_arrow PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/sb_v_double_arrow PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/size_all PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/size_bdiag PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/size_fdiag PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/size_hor PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/size_ver PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/split_h PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/split_v PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/text PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/top_left_corner PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/top_right_corner PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/top_side PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/up_arrow PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/v_double_arrow PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/w-resize PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/wait PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/watch PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/xterm PRE-CREATION
cursors/KDE_Classic/index.theme PRE-CREATION
kcontrol/input/CMakeLists.txt cb81718
kcontrol/input/xcursor/bitmaps.h c208ee7
kcontrol/input/xcursor/legacytheme.h bd3c33d
kcontrol/input/xcursor/legacytheme.cpp 28d7f2a
kcontrol/input/xcursor/thememodel.cpp d69dde0
kcontrol/input/xcursor/xcursortheme.h b4b6c53
kcontrol/input/xcursor/xcursortheme.cpp 2fc7504
Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110339/diff/
Testing
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Runtime switching, relogin.
Thanks,
Eike Hein
