I hope this becomes popular enough that a lot of major distros start adopting it as a default
Specifically because I want to see turbo-weirdos talk about how higher-quality cursors are “bloat” or “against KISS” for the next 10 years. 💀
Tbh I dont really see how anyone can call this bloat( I use doas btw). Its just so much more space efficient. 4 example I ported capitaine cursors and it takes below 200 kbs of space, its just that much more space efficient
You are most likely correct from a technical point of view.
But don’t ever underestimate the potential of weird folks to be – Weird.
Not that I think it’s per se a bad thing – But I feel like a lot of Linux people are pack bonded to the utilities and tools they have grown used to. Whatever justification they write comes after the fact from an emotional reaction to seeing the thing they are bonded with lose ground.
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I don’t think you have to, or even should, support JavaScript in cursor themes.
stares at gnome
Sometimes I long back for the times when I just used my computer to do things, instead of forming an opinion about the compression rate of my cursor’s image data.
I hope GTK and GNOME (or is GTK part of GNOME?) adopt this, I didn’t even know just how bad the inefficiency with todays cursors is. Having a single svg for each cursor and rendering it server-side makes so much more sense.
Did someone already open an issue for this?
GTK is mainly developed by Gnome
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK
Interesting. I didn’t realize XCursor predates most image formats XD
X* predates almost everything still in common use.
Which is, frankly, amazing.
It’s also why Wayland took (is taking) so long. It has to compete against X11 with decades of development.
That’s a tall order.
Very cool. I wish the entirety of the computer’s interface was scalable SVG so any custom resolution is possible and looks good.
Yeah vector gui is a very cool idea. That said, arbitrary scaling on windows “just works” these days so definitely possible on Linux too without any radical tech changes
Interesting and fun read, thank you !
In the beginning, the earth was without form, and void. Wait, a bit too far behind.
😁
Thanks for sharing this, was a neat look under the hood.
interesting read
Please make sure it doesn’t contain any bugs which can be exploited.
0-day’d by my fucking cursor, smh
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Neat!
Yo! I would love for something like this to become a thing because I have recently become a big fan of SVGs. Would absolutely love a custom cursor that scales to any size with minimal issues of it looking too small on the 1080 TV I sometimes plug my laptop into using HDMI.
It is? It only works on hyprland tho. That being said its really easy porting xcursor themes over. It does all the things you just described.
It should work everywhere, not only on hyprland. At least that’s the goal.
This is awesome
