GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 780434
Re-introduce caret/cursor width configuration option
Last modified: 2018-04-17 08:12:02 UTC
Caret (text insertion cursor) width was configurable until 3.22.x (included) using the 'cursor-aspect-ratio' style property. This is a useful feature especially for low-vision people where the traditional thin caret is not always visible enough. Combined with caret color those were 2 great options for them, which some accessibility themes had been taking advantage of. However, this got removed in https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?h=master&id=281c1e4fe547973df320c68836713b9ecd3f9688 and https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?h=master&id=9fd1a1bbe30fba7a28877871da5b412db6f101c0 as part of the style properties removal. It would be very nice if this feature was re-introduced somehow, be it as a "true" CSS rule or something else.
Any input on this bug? Windows provides this feature, GTK2 and GTK3 has provided this feature. To make GTK completely universal, including visual-impaired people we need to be able to customize things like the caret cursor width. What can I tell to a user that needs this feature? Best regards, Alex.
> What can I tell to a user that needs this feature? That gtk4 hasn't been released yet and that there's an open bug report about it. I have no idea how it will be or should be re-introduced though.
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I have reported the issue on gitlab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/188
It would've been moved to GitLab soon anyway. In the meantime, I don't think it's useful if people do that manually, meaning this now has to be closed by someone else to avoid us having 2 later...