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When you have a mouse theme set in the system settings module, it shows you a preview of the various cursors. However, this preview is static even for animated cursors. It would be more useful if it was animated.

A static preview of an animated thing isn't very useful, it creates the (false) impression that the thing can't be or isn't animated if you don't know better. +1

Allow animated gif's?

In KDE 4.3 beta 1, sorry I'm not try this in other versions, if you put the pointer over the preview you can see the animation.

That works in trunk as well. I still think the preview itself should be animated, though.

TheBlackCat wrote:That works in trunk as well. I still think the preview itself should be animated, though.

I don't think so and you must use animations and not the real icon process so maintenance and overwork would be needed.

I think this idea needs too work for so simple eyecandy.

I was thinking those icons could just use the mouse cursors themselves. That way, if the mouse cursors are animated so is the preview. No extra work would be needed.

I'm not sure that you could use QCursor (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qcursor.html) to do this stuff, this class is associated with Xcursor (http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Xcursor.3.html), and both are mouse related so, probably, coding an emulation system would be required. Xcursor images are basically png with some info (man xcursor, man xcursorgen) so coding wouldn't be problematic.

If somebody could add light to this discusion comments are welcome .

For me seems to be a bad relation between effort and benefits.