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Ship it!


I haven't reviewed the binary files, but the rest LGTM.

- Fredrik Höglund


On May 6, 2013, 11:04 p.m., Eike Hein wrote:
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> (Updated May 6, 2013, 11:04 p.m.)
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> Review request for kde-workspace and Fredrik Höglund.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 
> Diffs
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>   cursors/CMakeLists.txt b1f9c7a 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/00000000000000020006000e7e9ffc3f PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/00008160000006810000408080010102 PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/08e8e1c95fe2fc01f976f1e063a24ccd PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/3ecb610c1bf2410f44200f48c40d3599 PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/4498f0e0c1937ffe01fd06f973665830 PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/5c6cd98b3f3ebcb1f9c7f1c204630408 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/crossed_circle PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/crosshair PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/d9ce0ab605698f320427677b458ad60b 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/half-busy PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/hand1 PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/hand2 PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/help PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/ibeam PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/left_ptr PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/left_ptr_watch 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/progress PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/question_arrow 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/whats_this PRE-CREATION 
>   cursors/KDE_Classic/cursors/xcursorconfig 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 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110339/diff/
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> Testing
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> Runtime switching, relogin.
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> Thanks,
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> Eike Hein
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