Merry Christmas
Hello!
I’d just like to wish you everything you wish yourself for Christmas! 
And to give you the promised present…
With David Miller, in these two days I’ve done quite a big rush on the cursor theme, as you can see on its cgit page.
We’ve targeted to complete at least a basic set to be given away as Christmas present, and as preview of what will be included in KDE 4.0 as default cursor theme (at least I hope so, I’m writing the mail to kde-core-devel right now).
The clock cursor is the big missing, altough the pointer+clock is already there. And I made the hand thinner.
Here are the links to the white and yellow themes, installable, but first the mandatory previews, in random order. 
Hand:
Contextual Help:
Text, ibeam, xterm, blinking, or however you call it
: 
Grabbing:
Pencil:
Diagonal resizing:
Pointer + clock:
UPDATE: Download the newest sets which are linked in the other post. They work better
- Download the white installable theme - (364 kBytes, .tar) -
- Download the yellow installable theme - (364 kBytes, .tar) -
The cursor theme is licenced under the license LGPL version 3, and is Copyrighted (C) 2007 by Riccardo Iaconelli and David Miller.
Please note xterm, I think it’s just lovely. And it *does* work greatly on text!
Actually, there are more cursors drawn in the git repo but I haven’t created all the config files yet. I will try to sit down with fredrikh and finish this off too. Then I’ll probably have to ask jpetso to work with me on a sane spec for cursor naming, currently this is all a plain mess.
Feel free to report me any bugs or usability annoyances in the theme. =)
Ah, because I remembered you asked, I will try to make a lefthanded version of the theme too. And maybe some other colors… and… who knows, maybe some will be with the Tango palette. 
Have a very happy Christmas and a good new year!
Bye! =)
P.S. There are two sentences in the text, which are quotes from a song of one of the most known groups in the history of music. I have a bonus present to the first who can find the two quotes and tell where do they come from, including name of the song.
Comment by Jakob Petsovits, aka jpetso — December 26, 2007 @ 7:57 am
Aren’t those cursor names predefined by X anyways, and therefore cross-desktop by default? Their names may be ugly, but who cares if every end user gets perfect results?
p.s.:
transform-move!
transform-move!
Comment by Jakob Petsovits — December 26, 2007 @ 8:02 am
Oh right, I forgot… the cursor set looks great so far! (I prefer the white version, don’t have good standing with intense mouse cursors.)
And I’m really wondering how the xterm cursor will do in real life. Oh wait, I can just download it and try it out!
Comment by mutlu_inek — December 26, 2007 @ 8:06 am
The cursor theme is stunning! You do an amazing work!
Oh, and yes, I knew that one:
“This is Paul McCartney here, I’d just like to wish you everything you wish yourself for Christmas.
This is John Lennon saying on behalf of the Beatles, have a very Happy Christmas and a good New Year.”
From:
The Beatles - Christmas Time (is Here Again)
mutlu
Comment by Alexander Rieder — December 26, 2007 @ 8:07 am
The Quotes are:
“I’d just like to wish you everything you wish yourself for Christmas!”
and “Have a very happy Christmas and a good new year!”
From the Beatles Song Christmas Time (is Here Again)
Do I get a present now?
Comment by ruphy — December 26, 2007 @ 8:14 am
@mutlu_inek, @Alexander Rieder:
Aye, you guys are awesome, you’ve answered almost simultaneously…
I owe you another present then… now I only need to think about what.
Btw, it’s right the music I was listening to when writing this post… rockin’!
Comment by ruphy — December 26, 2007 @ 8:14 am
@jpetso:
see the tarball, it was the first one I did.
Now I just need to be fully satisfied of it!
Comment by Ian Monroe — December 26, 2007 @ 8:39 am
There was an ad for a really ugly cursor theme, at first I thought thats what you were referring to and was a bit worried.
The actual one looks good though.
Comment by Jonas — December 26, 2007 @ 8:45 am
Really great cursors, and I’m using it right now
Only cursor I really don’t like is the hand…somehow it is too bulky as if someone’s hand is swollen or something. That’s the pointing hand. The open one is fine.
The other gripe is that it isn’t finished yet, but I’ll be patient
Comment by vladislav — December 26, 2007 @ 10:33 am
what an immense improvement for the cursor theme! keep up the good work!
Comment by ramvi — December 26, 2007 @ 2:57 pm
Is it possible to use these in Gnome?
Comment by ruphy — December 26, 2007 @ 6:02 pm
@ramvi:
Sure it is, altough I’ve not tested it under gnome, and therefore some cursors might not show up there, even if in KDE they do.
Should be a rare thing, and for sure it will still remain usable.
In case you’re willing to do it, I’d be glad to hear from you any problems that may show up in GNOME. =)
Comment by randomguy3 — December 26, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
They look awesome, although I’m not sure I like the yellow pencil cursor - the grey in it makes it look a bit dirty.
Comment by David Miller — December 26, 2007 @ 6:41 pm
Very pretty =)
Ruphy:
About gtk/gnome, it uses a different set of cursors for resizing windows. Eg:
Open a gtk app with a statusbar and a bottom right corner grab handle thing. Hover the mouse over this.
Compare this cursor with the one hovered over the edge of kwin.
Metacity and other gtk WM’s will use 8 variants of of the cursor you get hovered over the statusbar grab handle
Comment by ruphy — December 26, 2007 @ 7:40 pm
@randomguy3:
I just didn’t want to colorize it all, just a subtle colorizing.
Comment by annma — December 26, 2007 @ 9:39 pm
wooow ruphy! Thanks a lot, very nice present. I’m using the yellow theme, love it!
Will we get a New Year present as well?
Comment by ruphy — December 26, 2007 @ 9:57 pm
@annma:
hopefully, hopefully even something today (or tomorrow)
Comment by Kyle Cunningham — December 26, 2007 @ 11:20 pm
Awesome cursor themes! They look very nice, and I imagine they will fit in well with the KDE4 desktop (I can’t check because mine is broken right now =/).
I just have one question. Would you also consider making a darker toned colorization of the cursors (along the lines of http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/DMZ+AA?content=55211)? I think that it would round things out nicely to have dark, light, and bright versions of the same theme (and hopefully I’m not the only one who would want this).
Comment by logixoul — December 26, 2007 @ 11:43 pm
Heya ruphy. Not sure if you want comments at this point, but…
- the ibeam feels too chubby and obscures too much of the letters I’m trying to select. Might be just habit, but I doubt I can love anything thicker than a pixel here.
- the Look is good. and by good I mean crisp.
- the Feel however is awful. it’s like trying to use a teddy bear in lieu of a screwdriver. doesn’t work for me. and that’s coming from someone who felt right at home with Knoppix’s old fucked up cursor theme.
anyway, merry xmas!
Comment by Alltruist — December 26, 2007 @ 11:50 pm
Love the new cursor theme. Can’t wait for KDE 4 to go gold. Merry Christmas to you too.
By the way, when will you release the tarball with the 100+ wallpapers you mentioned in a previous post?
Thanks.
DC
Comment by mutlu_inek — December 27, 2007 @ 12:25 am
Steve, most people simply love the Oxygen theme. If you don’t, you can select different themes. It’s not like choice is taken away from you.
Btw., you act like a jerk.
Comment by mutlu_inek — December 27, 2007 @ 12:27 am
Comments are sorted by date and time? Weird. My comment above refers to Steve’s comment below.
Keep up your awesome work, ruphy (at al.)
Comment by ruphy — December 27, 2007 @ 2:59 am
@mutlu_inek:
no idea at all about what happened man
Comment by ruphy — December 27, 2007 @ 3:01 am
ok, seems he always want to stay down
Comment by Tom — December 27, 2007 @ 3:17 am
Is it possible to get these in ico format as to install them on a xp machine?
Comment by Steve — December 27, 2007 @ 11:51 am
It’s really ugly. Nothing else to say. KDE 4 in general is really not æsthetic at all, compared to KDE 3.5 and CrystalClear. It’s really disappointing. I wish they came back to their decision and either redesigned the whole layout and icon set, or reverted back to the KDE 3.5 look and feel.
Comment by logixoul — December 27, 2007 @ 12:09 pm
update:
the cursors totally grew on me for the ~4 hours I’ve been using them.
weird.
Comment by joekey — December 27, 2007 @ 12:32 pm
thanxs very much Ricardo!! nice, very slick design!
happy xmas!!
cheers
Comment by ruphy — December 28, 2007 @ 2:23 am
@Tom:
I would love to release a Windows version too, I only need to find someone willing to help in doing that. =)
Comment by Tom — December 30, 2007 @ 5:47 pm
@ruphy
I might be able to help in doing it.
I have messed around with cursors before, just a little on a linux box though, mostly on windows.
If you could send me the png images (not run through xcursorgen) I could see what I could do.
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