antiquated cursor themes in K/ubuntu - missing cursors and sizes

[Janet]

It seems Ubuntu (Kubuntu 12.04 here, KDE SC 4.9) uses a set of rather antiquated cursors. The oxygen-cursor-theme & oxygen-cursor-theme-extra packages are version 2010-05-10-kde4.4.3 while the current oxygen cursors according to Debian Sid are at least 2012-06-kde4.8.2

The K/ubuntu version of the oxygen cursors doesn't use different sizes but since KDE SC 4.8 it is possible to choose different cursor sizes if the theme contains different sizes. The current oxygen cursors are available in size 24 and 48, but not the Kubuntu ones. In Kubuntu the size chooser is greyed out whereas it works in Debian Sid with the current oxygen cursor package.

I am not sure but I guess this reported (and presumably invalid) bug also has its cause in the antiquated cursor package of K/ubuntu:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304263

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Shawn Peterson (shawnpeterson77)]

I can confirm this, as well as some other oddities. See my bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304263

[Janet (bugzilla-kerridis)]

@Shawn Peterson: Until this is fixed in K/Uubntu you can symlink the missing cursor names in your favorite theme.

I have symlinked the following cursors in the contrast large theme (one that looks odd in K/Ubuntu) and it works:

ln -s xterm text
ln -s xterm ibeam
ln -s hand pointing_hand
ln -s hand pointer
ln -s question_arrow help
ln -s question_arrow whats_this
ln -s fleur size_all
ln -s fleur all-scroll
ln -s top_left_corner size_fdiag
ln -s top_right_corner size_bdiag
ln -s top_side size_ver
ln -s right_side size_hor
ln -s watch wait

Nonetheless the oxygen theme also should be updated by K/Ubuntu because of the cursor size.

[Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)]

hi!

This seems to be fixed for the Quantal:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=oxygen-cursor

Changelog: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/o/oxygencursors/oxygencursors_0.0.2012-06-kde4.8-2ubuntu2/changelog

Should we ask to have it backported to the pixelprecise Pangolin?

[Janet (bugzilla-kerridis)]

As Precise is a LTS version and some more people will use it a longer time, yes, I think this should be backported.

[Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)]

@ Janet, xcuses, took me a little while to do so: bug1041528 (backport-request) oxygencursortheme [precise]

[Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)]

@ Janet: Yes - it was backported to 12.04 LTS

for the bug-hunters -> bug 1041528

[Janet (bugzilla-kerridis)]

Thanks for the backport request and follow-up!