Package: adwaita-icon-theme Version: 46~beta-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream Control: affects -1 firefox firefox-esr chromium libsdl2-2.0-0 Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/278
adwaita-icon-theme 46~beta removed a lot of symlinks representing legacy X11 cursor names, such as left_ptr, hand2 and xterm. Instead, it exclusively contains cursor names corresponding to the CSS cursor list: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ui/#cursor which is the same as the freedesktop.org cursor spec, minus the proposed "up-arrow" which is in neither CSS nor Adwaita: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/cursor-spec/ Unfortunately, lots of applications expect/assume that the legacy X11 cursor names will exist, and use them in preference to the CSS names. Depending on the application, this can result in it either falling back to the default arrow, or a nasty-looking pixelated X11 cursor, or an empty rectangle. A particularly visible symptom for this is that in affected applications, the cursor does not change from its default shape to an I-beam when hovering over selectable text, and does not change to a pointing finger when hovering over a hyperlink. For the cursors that have a corresponding entry in the legacy X11 vocabulary and the CSS vocabulary, it's very easy to provide backwards-compat by creating symlinks, for example left_ptr -> default, hand2 -> pointer, xterm -> text. If upstream are not going to do this, then I think it would be pragmatic for Debian and other distros to do it. I am *not* intending to create or ship cursors that existed in the X11 cursor vocabulary but do not exist in the CSS vocabulary, some of which are frankly baffling (I'm pretty sure we don't actually need boat, pirate or umbrella, for example). Applications wanting those cursors can either use unthemed X11 cursors or ship their own. smcv ---- For reference, the CSS cursor names are as follows: alias all-scroll cell col-resize context-menu copy crosshair default e-resize ew-resize grab grabbing help move n-resize ne-resize nesw-resize no-drop not-allowed ns-resize nw-resize nwse-resize pointer progress row-resize s-resize se-resize sw-resize text vertical-text w-resize wait zoom-in zoom-out and the X11 cursor names are: X_cursor arrow based_arrow_down based_arrow_up boat bogosity bottom_left_corner bottom_right_corner bottom_side bottom_tee box_spiral center_ptr circle clock coffee_mug cross cross_reverse crosshair diamond_cross dot dotbox double_arrow draft_large draft_small draped_box exchange fleur gobbler gumby hand1 hand2 heart icon iron_cross left_ptr left_side left_tee leftbutton ll_angle lr_angle man middlebutton mouse pencil pirate plus question_arrow right_ptr right_side right_tee rightbutton rtl_logo sailboat sb_down_arrow sb_h_double_arrow sb_left_arrow sb_right_arrow sb_up_arrow sb_v_double_arrow shuttle sizing spider spraycan star target tcross top_left_arrow top_left_corner top_right_corner top_side top_tee trek ul_angle umbrella ur_angle watch xterm
