Unable to change mouse pointer in gnome-appearance-properties

[B. Clausius]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

When I try to change an existing theme (eg border or icons) a new theme is created and I can use the SaveAs button to save it under a new name, but if I only change the mouse pointer no theme is created and the SaveAs button is deactivated.
When I try to change icons and mouse pointer, not the selected pointer or the original theme pointer is stored in the theme. The stored pointer is the one i had when starting gnome-appearance-properties.
The problem seem to me specific to gutsy because a theme that I created under feisty has the right pointer.
Another effect is: When I first change the pointer and then the icons, then the pointer is changed with the icons (back to the pointer when starting gnome-appearance-properties).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485709

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been fixed upstream now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

 gnome-control-center (1:2.20.1-0ubuntu1) gutsy-proposed; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream bugfix release:
     - Appearance:
       - Made theme sorting case-insensitive (#481224)
       - Fixed crash when failing filename conversion to UTF-8
       - Don't ignore xcursor settings when updating or copying theme info
         to/from GConf (#485709) (LP: #150475)
     - Common:
       - Fixed invalid use after free
       - Fix typo to correctly substitute XCursor CFLAGS
       - Default to using XF86* keysyms for the audio related keybindings
         (#485076)
       - Query and monitor the xcursor icon dir for cursor themes too (#469882)
     - Translations updated.
   * Refresh 99_autoreconf.patch.

[B. Clausius (barcc)]

gnome-control-center 1:2.20.1-0ubuntu1
Bug is partially fixed

Scenario 1:
a. Select theme
b. Change pointer
c. Change border
d. Save As
-> OK: Correct pointer saved

Scenario 2: (b <-> c)
a. Select theme
b. Change border
c. Change pointer
d. Save As
-> Bug: pointer not saved

Scenario 3:
a. Select theme
b. Change pointer
-> Bug: Button [Save As] disabled, can't save
Themes cannot be saved if they differ only in pointer.

There also seems to be a problem with pointers with variable size.
Either the size is not saved properly or not loaded properly at theme change, but i can't say how to reproduce.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Already tested the update for Gutsy and Is ok to wait for the total fix on the "only change mouse pointer" but there's still a part of the save of the xcursor setting that is not fixed (Scenario 2), I've re-opened the bug upstream. thanks barcc.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the package has been accepted to gutsy-updates now

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's working fine in Hardy, thanks!.