[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mouse pointers - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

[Ian Johnson]

I personally like the absence of Ubuntu-esque cursor themes from the last
Sun dev builds and S11X. A black cursor is easier to see on most
backgrounds, but since Ubuntu adopted that stubby white Windows Vista-esque
cursor theme a while back, Linux distros (and Sun) have been falling all
over themselves to add it to their own default configurations. As long as I
can keep my black Solaris pointer/wristwatch, I'm happy.

On Dec 21, 2010 6:56 PM, "Guido Berhoerster" <gber at openindiana.org> wrote:
>
> * Dmitry G. Kozhinov <dima at desktopfay.com> [2010-12-21 23:21]:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In OpenSolaris 2009.06 there were nice mouse pointers.
> > Eventually they gone bad in 2010.03 and 11 Express (cannot understand
why).
>
> That was simply a bug.
>
> > Obviously to fix these, in OpenIndiana build 148 we see the third
> > breed of them (taken from Linux?). I don't like these - the arrow
> > has too sharp tips, and the hand is simply awful. Classical
> > wristwatch pointer replaced with some "wheel".
> >
> > How can I get 2009.06 pointers back?
> > Aren't they a part of Nimbus theme?
> > I don't want my OI installation to look like Linux.
>
> No, the mouse cursors are not part of the Nimbus theme, they were
> simply retrieved from gnome-look.org. The great thing about
> themes is that you can change them, so if you'd like to get that
> Windows 3.1-look back you can simply download the old Neutral
> Plus Inverted cursor theme yourself from
>
http://www.gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/70481-Neutral_Plus_Inv.tar.gz
>
> --
> Guido Berhoerster
>
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