On 22.10.2016 15:10, Joel Kulesza wrote:
Sorry, I did not make myself clear before. I am suggesting to not let the user choose the cursor color but instead enforce inverted color. I think an inverted cursor has the benefit of being visible in any situation while the downsides seem small. I think most people are either working with a very light or very dark background. In that case the cursor would be almost black or almost white, respectively. I think that is the setting most people use anyway. Daniel On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Joel Kulesza <jkule...@gmail.com <mailto:jkule...@gmail.com>> wrote: Why not let inversion be the default behavior and then let users choose? Perhaps I want my cursor to also stand out from my text... Sorry for top-posting the prior couple comments, early-morning emailing, habit, and default interface behavior all stymie me. Regardless, to expound a bit on the previous reply: my overarching point is that developers providing what they believe to be the most sensible defaults is quite reasonable. However, preventing (or perhaps worse: taking away) the ability for a user to change it to his/her preference does not seem reasonable (the user may have a different belief in what is "most sensible"). Furthermore, because the option is currently there, folks might miss it if/when removed/disabled. It's also not clear to me what significant savings is made by removing the option to choose the color versus allowing it to interact gracefully with the background / cursor color relationship. Use case scenarios: 1. Set the background, it updates the cursor to be the inverse, notifies the user (since they are already in the dialog), and the user can then update the cursor to the preferred color 2. Set the cursor, and it changes. Adding one additional notification doesn't seem like much a burden to the user vs. the savings gained when a user wonders "why did my cursor change?" This is so because I would suspect users aren't changing the background color very often.
Thanks. Yes, it would be possible to make it default and leave it up to the user to disable this setting.
However, I am at the moment considering to change LyX's spacing such that the cursor before an element starts directly at the element. As is the case with normal characters. It is just a thought for now. This would only be sensible when the cursor automatically changes color when placed at a border because it would become (almost) invisible otherwise. I guess, even these spacing setting could be a setting in the preference. We'll see.
Daniel
