Re: Insertion cursor drawing improvements

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes:

> gtk-devel-list-request gnome org wrote:
> > 
> Owen said:
> 
> > Just found the following patch on one of my computers - I've had
> > it sitting around for a few months. What it
> > does is:
> > 
> >  - Make the insertion cursor draw with wider width for taller cursors
> 
> It looks to me as though this is still using a line thickness of 1, but
> adding some arrow/stem lines.  I think that theming the line width is
> better
> for accessibility purposes, so I'd like to see that included.

Actually it is using a stem width of (height/30 + 1). If we were going
to themability of this the '30' would be what you'd want to
theme. (It's possible that the cursor width should actually be
based off the stem width of the font...)
 
Regards,
                                        Owen