On 2007-August-22 , at 17:29 , MenTaLguY wrote:
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:52:02 -0300, "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
-I don't know about most of you people, but that little hand that
replaces
the arrow cursor when some object can be moved.. I hate that hand :),
I
would be much more happy with a plain arrow cursor all the time I'm
using
the "selector" tool, like in most programs.
That's the first time I hear anyone complain about this. To me, it's a very useful visual feedback. When I have to work in another tool which does not do this, I can't stop thinking that something is broken.
I've heard complaints about this, actually -- but the complaint isn't really that the cursor changes, but rather that the hand cursor it changes to (depending on the user's cursor theme) is imprecise, without an obvious "hotspot".
Maybe a different hover cursor would be better? I'm not sure which one, though.
mine, with the industrial GTK theme, is a kind of cross (it's called "fleur" in the theme because it looks a bit like a flower) but it is big also and imprecise. I tried to design a smaller, more precise, one but couldn't get Inkscape to use it. I guess replacing it in the GTK theme would work but I think it was better if it was Inkscape specific so I tried to modify select-context.cpp and did not succeed.
you can find the xpm file attached (it's small so I attached it, I hope it will be OK).