On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 15:20, Alan Evans ame.fedora@gmail.com wrote:
The most obstinate wing has been driving GNOME for a very long time now. For a good laugh, just browse the gnome-devel archives.
I agree. I remember six years ago installing a Fedora derivative (Blag) and finding myself unable to do something as simple as changing the mouse cursor to a color one (bright red).
http://forums.blagblagblag.org/viewtopic.php?p=7569&sid=e7203939b88e3753...
The answer from other users was "I gave up".
15 years ago, in IBM OS/2 Warp, changing the mouse cursor was a drag-and-drop operation, just drag any .ico over the drop area of the mouse pointer tab in the mouse properties object, and that .ico became the cursor.
I´m curious if things have improved in Gnome 3, or changing the cursors is still a pain in the ass.
(Remembering my experiences with Blag, when I jumped over to Fedora 9, I didn´t bother to try to change the mouse cursors set).
FC