Do not set the cursor globally

[erilyth]

Issue where the cursor is not being reset even when we exit 'Sugar'.
Discussed on mailing list - '[Sugar-devel] Mouse pointer changes into sugar style pointer in ubuntu'

[jvonau]

Some background ea803cb

What if the user's starting 'cursor-theme' was not 'default', this would alter that user's choice of themes. Might want to read the current setting, save it and use the observed value to restore the user's previous setting in place of using 'default'.

[erilyth]

@jvonau, It now gets reset to the user's original cursor.

[jvonau]

should address inadvertent changing of a user setting, currently untested by myself.

[quozl]

Would like also to support running /usr/bin/sugar in GNOME or Unity desktop; the cursor should be private to Sugar and activities, not infect all other desktop apps.

[erilyth]

@quozl ,how do you think I should proceed to get that done?

[quozl]

@erilyth, look for a more subtle way to set the cursor. Changing GSettings is overkill, and dates from the time that Sugar was alone on a device.

[davelab6]

I filed an issue on bugs.sugarlabs.org about this but it awaits moderation

[quozl]

@davelab6, i'm not even sure who does moderation duties on bugs.sugarlabs.org.

[davelab6]

@davelab6, i'm not even sure who does moderation duties on bugs.sugarlabs.org.

Aha! :)

@walterbender do you know who does moderate bugs.sugarlabs.org?

When I submit tickets it says,

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[quozl]

Ah, okay, thanks. Not being subject to moderation means I'm ignorant. Samuel Cantero is regularly responsive on systems@ mailing list. (fragmentation again).

[davelab6]

Okay cool, I'll post there and CC him as I found his email :)

[erilyth]

@quozl There are ways to set the cursor using Gdk, but the problem is that the cursor needs to be set individually for every activity. Since the cursor is set on a given window. Would this be okay or should I look for something better?

[quozl]

@erilyth, that's great, sounds like what we need. So you'll be able to put that in sugar-toolkit-gtk3 in the activity common code. Once you show us that, I can look at whether I can backport it to sugar-toolkit (gtk2).

[erilyth]

@quozl , I'll send a PR to sugar-toolkit-gtk3