xcurs 0.5.1 review

XCurs is a program used for editing XCursor formatted XFree86 mouse cursors

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 15K Developer: Pasi Savolainen

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XCurs is a program used for editing XCursor formatted XFree86 mouse cursors. This type of format became available as a result of Keith Packard's work on XFree86 v4.3.

What's So Important about xcursor?

xcursor contains a) Alpha Info, b) ~16 million colors c) animation of cursor, none of which were available in prior cursor incarnation (bitmap cursor format, which had transparency, but not colored one and only 2 colors which were not quite easily changeable.)

Here are some key features of "xcurs":
loading (from RGBA capable files)
saving (no symlinked cursors will be saved) (into XCursor format)
xhot/yhot/delay management
removing of single image
adding of single image

Requirements:
python
PyGtk2 (python2.2-gtk2 in debian)
Image python module (python2.2-imaging in debian)
read README -file.