#593891 Wrong cursor when oxygencursors are installed

Package:
dmz-cursor-theme
Source:
dmz-cursor-theme
Submitter:
Alex
Date:
2010-08-22 09:00:05 UTC
Severity:
minor
#593891#5
Date:
2008-09-17 21:53:51 UTC
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On the system are installed more cursor packages, among them crystalcursors
and oxygencursors.
In kcontrol the cursor theme is set to  crystalcursors blue, but for various
actions the cursor
will actually be from the oxygene theme (a whitish version): all 8 directions
resizin; the
active waiting cursor; the line cursor for editing text (this last one happens
only to KDE programs and Opera, but not
Pidgin or openoffice for example).

If it's of any help, the KDM login cursor is an oxygen one, probably a Debian
default. I
think there used to be bugs like this, with a new cursor not replacing the old
one completely.
Don't know if the bug belongs to crystalcursors
#593891#10
Date:
2009-03-11 19:27:11 UTC
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Hi,
This is not a bug in the crystalcursors package.

Could anyone have a deeper look on this? Any cursor I choose I still get
that subset of Oxygen icons in most programs. This means all of KDE,
Opera, Skype, but not Pidgin, OpenOffice, Thunderbird.

Systemsettings even shows this as normal, as in the attachment.

I think the former are all Qt programs. Thanks.

Best regards,
Alex
#593891#15
Date:
2009-03-13 20:18:20 UTC
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I believe this is a problem of oxygen cursors on Debian.

Forcibly removing the package oxygencursors solves the problem, but this
breaks a kdebase package, called kdebase-workspace-data. It also solves
the problem in the KDE 4 compiled from sources (which still has oxygen
cursors installed from the sources), that's why I believe it's a Debian
problem.

Thanks, Alex
#593891#20
Date:
2010-08-08 21:50:50 UTC
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reassign 499344 kdebase-workspace
thanks

To restate the bug report, crystalcursors includes all the important cursors,
including wait/busy, what is this?, pointing hand, text selection, and
resizing cursors, but the corresponding cursors from Oxygen are used
nonetheless. I suspect this is because there are at least two names for each
cursor, and KDE 4 uses the cursor with the preferred/new name from the default
theme before any cursor available under an alternative name in the selected
theme (actually I think it's just those MD5 hashes of the hardcoded built-in
cursors that are used).

I think that's a bug in KDE, but I'm not sure which package is responsible. I
picked kdebase-workspace because it's kdebase-workspace-data that depends on
oxygencursors. Please pass the bug on if I guessed wrong.

Alternatively, or as a workaround, all cursor packages might have to provide
all their cursors under the new names as well. That would also work around the
swapped resize cursors bug 548804.
#593891#31
Date:
2010-08-08 22:27:45 UTC
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On söndagen den 8 augusti 2010, you stated the following:

Also reported at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213615, with a perhaps
better analysis. I still don't think it's a bug in any cursor package; maybe
in Qt?
#593891#36
Date:
2010-08-21 20:49:16 UTC
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On måndagen den 9 augusti 2010, I stated the following:

I think you could have been more helpful, but anyway, I now understand that
it's libXcursor that is responsible for the fallback to the default theme, and
that neither KDE nor Qt can do much about it (except that Qt could have used
standard X11 cursor names when running under X11). Perhaps lower the
alternatives priority for oxygencursors so that if the administrator installs
additional themes besides Oxygen, one of them will be the default by default,
so to speak?
#593891#41
Date:
2010-08-21 21:26:04 UTC
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It appears that, at least for the time being, all cursor packages will have to
provide the Qt cursor names as symlinks for them to work in KDE when Oxygen is
the default theme.

Here is a list:

center_ptr up_arrow
watch wait
xterm ibeam
fleur size_all
hand pointing_hand
v_double_arrow size_ver
h_double_arrow size_hor
fd_double_arrow size_bdiag
bd_double_arrow size_fdiag
question_arrow whats_this
sb_h_double_arrow split_h
sb_v_double_arrow split_v
crossed_circle forbidden
grabbing closedhand
fleur openhand  (?)
#593891#52
Date:
2010-08-21 22:13:14 UTC
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Why?

Cheers,
Julien
#593891#57
Date:
2010-08-21 22:25:24 UTC
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It should be clear from the bug report log, but in short, if you run KDE, have
one of the Oxygen themes as system default and a user tries to choose a
different theme using KDE's control panel, several of the theme's cursors will
not be used.
#593891#62
Date:
2010-08-21 23:22:04 UTC
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The general problem is clear. But in cloning this report, you haven't
shown where each of the packages needs to be fixed. Your list doesn't
really help me find what needs to be fixed in the package.

Can you please improve these reports by showing what you think is
missing in each of the packages.
#593891#67
Date:
2010-08-22 00:59:25 UTC
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cursor name associations you are requesting. Probably something in the
Qt docs?