Comment # 5 on bug 952288 from Atri Bhattacharya

(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #2)
> Somebody best carefully check what implication this has when running yast
> inside a KDE session, andd XFCE session, LXDE, Englightenment, IceWM...
> 
> Yast basically uses the DMZ icon theme as it runs as root, not as user...
> 
> Considering that starting other tasks as root actually does not make them
> use DMZ, makes me believe that YaST is messing with the cursor on its own.
> 
> Is yast the ONLY app that uses DMZ?

Pretty much all Qt apps also use the DMZ theme: tested with VLC, veusz,
qt-settings and a few others. Don't worry, these others were promptly
uninstalled ;)