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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: 3.2 ideas...
From:       Gary Greene <rei () tabris ! net>
Date:       2002-12-09 18:53:54
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On Sunday 08 December 2002 10:32 am, ttolst@tiscali.dk wrote:
> From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@acm.org>
>
> >Primoz Anzur wrote:
> >> Greetings!
> >> This is the idea, that I had it a looooooooong time ago, before KDE 2.2
> >>
> >> release; I have spoken with danimo (me thinks) on the IRC about adding
> >
> >a
> >
> >> control center module, that would control the "look&feel" of a mouse
> >>
> >> pointer...
> >
> >Is this going to increase usability?  How?
>
> And how many of the gazillion look'n'feel settings that we currently have
> actually incease usability? In my oppinion it is very few of them. (no,
> im not advocating getting rid of them, i like them and use them too, but
> that doesnt mean that it is a usability matter)
>
> As for a mouse pointer control center, we already have one of the two
> things that i think is important, which is a large cursor option. The one
> we lack IMO, but which might need support in X to work, is mouse trails.
> But these are a matter of improving accessability, and not usability
> though. But once the cursor extension is part of X i cant see why this
> could be coupled to simply adding support for mouse pointer themes too.
>
> Mvh
> Troels
>
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Actually, I LIKE the idea. AFA usability is concerned, actually, it DOES help,
since for those of us with poor eyesight, the black (or even the white
cursor) is hard to spot. For some the use of a colourful cursor would help.

With the coding aspect, really it isn't as hard as people are making it out to
be. X already supports this feature, look at Enlightenment. It has a
different coursor than X normally has and even has animations.

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