Porting Oxygen cursors to Windows

Bernhard mustermaxi at gmail.com
Sat Jan 5 20:44:54 CET 2008


i thought he means porting the oxygen cursors as a new windows cursor theme
and not just for kde4 applications at windows

.. and that would be really nice imho because windows is lacking such a nice
cursor theme.

2008/1/5, Jarosław Staniek <js at iidea.pl>:
>
> Riccardo Iaconelli said the following, On 2008-01-05 20:15:
>
> > is there someone of you guys who is willing to help me porting the Oxy
> cursors
> > to windows? Googling seems that Visual Studio is able to create them,
> and
> > apaku told me on IRC that someone in this list has it installed.
> >
> > I've no experience at all in that, and I don't have a windows machine
> where to
> > test them, but it would be something very nice to have. =)
> >
> > So, who is willing to help?
> >
> > Bye,
> > -Riccardo
> > P.S. I'm not subscribed to this list so please keep me CC'd.
>
> Do you mean mouse cursors? If so, let me ask, why do you need them on
> Windows
> which already have its set? (the same for GNOME/Mac/whatever).
>
> I am asking because I do not want to break user's experience by pretending
> that KDE apps on Windows (and Mac) are not native.
>
> Feel free to present your opinion and points.
>
> My message would be "we stay as native as possible" and "want the same
> experience with plasma and cool mouse cursors - go to Linux/BSD".
> That said, oxy cursors as an nondefault option are OK for me...
>
> PS:
> For those that do not remember how messy can app that redefines cursors
> and
> style look, I'd say - try to run Winamp...
>
> For me cursors are the part of operating system's internals, not
> per-window
> setting.
>
> --
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