Animated cursors don't animate in Unity8

[Daniel van Vugt]

Animated cursors don't animate in Unity8.

Test case:
 mir_demo_client_animated_cursor -- --desktop_file_hint=unity8

Works in Mir demo servers but not in Unity8.

I mentioned this in bug 1447839 but that one appears to have closed prematurely.

[Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader)]

https://code.launchpad.net/~dandrader/qtmir/consecutiveCustomCursors/+merge/296607 should fix it.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I have a suspicion this is the same issue as what's causing Xmir apps to show incorrect cursors, at least sometimes.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

In progress still. Nothing has been committed yet.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Confusingly this fix is documented in the changelog as first appearing in:
  qtmir (0.4.8+16.10.20160730-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium
However that release never existed. yakkety is really still on version:
  qtmir (0.4.8+16.10.20160714-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium
So you won't see any fix for this bug in yakkety for real till:
  qtmir (0.4.8+16.10.20160810-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package qtmir - 0.4.8+16.10.20160810-0ubuntu1

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qtmir (0.4.8+16.10.20160810-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Alan Griffiths ]
  * Reduce MirServer to an implementation detail of QMirServer (nothing
    else needs to touch it).

  [ Albert Astals Cid ]
  * Improvements from running clazy over the code
  * Compile with clang

  [ Daniel d'Andrada ]
  * Remove Application.stage and RoleStage from ApplicationManager

  [ Daniel van Vugt ]
  * Fix incorrect mouse wheel/touchpad scrolling scale (LP: #1607240)
    (LP: #1607223, #1607240)

 -- Michał Sawicz <email address hidden> Wed, 10 Aug 2016 06:53:16 +0000

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Sorry, I should have tested it. But The new qtmir release in yakkety with:
   lp:~dandrader/qtmir/consecutiveCustomCursors

Does not fix this bug at all. If anything it's now much worse (cursor not only doesn't animate but also pauses and stops responding to movement too).