animated cursors for GNOME?

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 02:45 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > My daughter has seen lots of whizz-bang custom cursors on the 'Net, but
> > they are all for Windows. She wants amazing cursors to use on her Ubuntu
> > system.
> >
> That's what happens when you have kids who want to use computers....
> 
> :-)
> 
> > I've checked out the various GNOME cursor sets, including some very nice
> > ones at gnome-look.org, but the basic problem is that they are
> > "booooring" - i.e., they are just pointers :-)
> >
> > Are there such things as animated dragon cursors, spinning beach balls
> > and whatnot for GNOME? If so, where does one get them from?
> >
> > I did find something in the repos that allegedly extracts icons and
> > cursors from Windows resource bundles, but thought I would find out if
> > there was a simpler way...
> >
> Probably not a simpler way.
> 
> Even in the "standard" collection there are animated cursors (such as
> the "wait while I do this" cursor in Ubuntu with the spinning dot
> where the stem of the usual arrow lives).  You can try to locate those
> and see what they are, then install your own versions, but I bet it's
> simpler to extract them from Windows versions of the same thing.
> 
> Caveat: animated cursors for normal operations tend to be distracting
> little bastards that will drive a user nuts after a while, even a kid.
>  IMO, unless you daughter wants to spend more time looking at the
> little moving thing instead of what she's actually on the computer to
> do, it's not worth it.

Maybe she'd settle for a spinning cube desktop with shaky windows and
snow? :) Ric


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