Can't select cursor theme in mir demo servers

[William Hua]

The mir demo shell defaults to the 'default' X cursor theme with no way to override it.

[Cemil Azizoglu (cemil-azizoglu)]

Hi William, can you add some comments as to the importance of this bug that will help me prioritize? Thanks Cemil

[William Hua (attente)]

Hi Cemil, it's a low-priority wishlist item, the cursor wasn't changing for me. The workaround I used was just to add a symlink from 'default' to whatever cursor theme I wanted to use.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Duplicate of bug 1380463, I think?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Oh, bug 1380463 is about clients setting their own cursors. This bug however is a simple enhancement request for our demo servers to choose between X cursor themes.

[William Hua (attente)]

Thanks, would we be able to get client API for setting the cursor theme in general? So that it would also work for non-demo servers.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I'm not sure we want to expose that in the client API. That would be setting in stone the information that Mir servers are using X cursor themes, whereas we aspire to something more modern (and more scalable) in future.

[Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths)]

Hmm, from the description and comment #2 I assumed that this was a request for code in the example server to enable configuring the cursor theme. A client API implies setting a theme per session (or surface)?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

That's true too. I don't think this is a client API thing. Just a server thing.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

On the other hand, we do eventually want a GUI to change the current default theme used in the server. That probably would have to be some form of client API connected through to the system compositor. :P

[Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths)]

/me doubts that a client (of a session compositor) should be talking to the /system/ compositor via Mir APIs.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

It may well be just Unity8 talking to USC but that's still using the client API. Unity8 is a server but it's also a client and it uses the Mir client API to talk to USC, naturally.

So, client API it would be, in theory. In practice I say we still don't want to implement it because right now that would tie our client API design to X cursor themes.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Syncing task from Mir.