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Bug 491851 - Use open/closed hand cursor for the image view
Use open/closed hand cursor for the image view
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: eog
Classification: Core
Component: image viewer
2.20.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: EOG Maintainers
EOG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-30 20:39 UTC by Federico Mena Quintero
Modified: 2010-08-30 23:22 UTC
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Description Federico Mena Quintero 2007-10-30 20:39:26 UTC 
EOG used to have these:

* An "open hand" mouse cursor when no buttons were pressed.  This indicated you that you could drag the image around.

* A "closed hand" mouse cursor when you were dragging with button 1.  This made things pretty, since the cursor was "grabbing the image".

The cursors used to live in eog/src/cursors, but that directory no longer exists.
I hope that the hand cursors can be restored; they provide a visual affordance that you can do something with the image by dragging it, while the arrow cursors do not.
Comment 1 Jakub Steiner 2007-10-31 10:01:11 UTC 
The DMZ cursor theme* includes the graphics for these. Maybe it makes sense to set the cursors to use X' 'hand1' and 'grabbing'.

* https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse-art/trunk/cursors/vanilla-dmz/
Comment 2 Luis Menina 2008-01-09 10:32:35 UTC 
Could this please corrected. It quite annoying to be unable to drag the image.
Comment 3 Felix Riemann 2008-01-16 12:05:34 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> ... Maybe it makes sense to set the cursors to use X' 'hand1' and 
> 'grabbing'. ...
> 

Are these "standardized" cursor names? It wouldn't make sense to use cursors that only a few cursor themes provide.
Comment 4 Luis Menina 2010-08-30 23:22:26 UTC 
This seems to have been replaced a while ago by a specific cursor with arrows in the 4 directions, and this gives feedback about the motion IMHO (I'm testing with GNOME 2.30). So I'm closing the bug. Feel free to reopen if you feel uncomfortable with the current solution.