This is the first release, that uses the new Cursor Theme Builder. It brings plenty advantages over the last one, like an animation system and support to build left-handed cursors. Check out the cursor theme builder for more details.
Sexier than ever
It was a long journey to get this release out, mainly due to writing a new build system. But hopefully, you can all agree, that the new phingers are sexier than ever:
New Borders
Unlike traditional cursors, phingers now come with a translucent border, which provides enough contrast, but isn't too much.
Space efficiency and new badges
Old phingers had to fight with very limited space, since they used a shadow and borders everywhere. The shadow did not provide enough benefits to justify the lost space, so they were now traded in for that lost space! Additionally, elements that provide enough contrast themselves, like badges, don't use a border anymore, which made it possible to increase the badge size significantly. All badge icons were updated to make better use of their new space.
Love For Lefties
The new Cursor Theme Builder supports transforming right handed cursors into left handed cursors. This means, this release officially comes with left handed variants. Instead of using phinger-cursors-light or phinger-cursors-dark, use phinger-cursors-light-left or phinger-cursors-dark-left.
100% Wayland (and CSS3)
A lot has happened since the last release over 2 years ago. Wayland, which is almost everywhere the default now, has introduced the cursor-shape-v1 protocol which defines an enum of cursors which was taken from the CSS spec.
Phingers now comes with 100% compatibility to this standard, which makes it future proof.
Taking Out The Trash
Some of the cursors in older releases were simply not used by any application. Most of those cursors had to say goodbye, and are now happily living in the trash, where they belong:
- all border cursors
- single axis scroll cursors
- x11 cursor
- wayland cursor
Nobody will miss those!
Aliases
This release contains all common aliases, and was tested on GNOME, XFCE and KDE. Missing cursors should now be a thing of the past!
New Build System
The main reason why this release took so long, was because I was working on an entirely new build system. It has now gotten its first release, and works well enough for phinger-cursors to switch to it. It has a pretty okay animation system, which makes key-framing animations a thing of the past.