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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Locating the pointer when it is on the bottom of the screen
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2004-12-10 13:45:15
Message-ID: 200412101445.15725.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Thursday 09 of December 2004 18:00, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > On Monday 06 of December 2004 23:36, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> >>I thought maybe the problem could be solved by flipping the mouse
> >>pointer vertically when the mouse is on the bottom edge of the screen.
> >>How about it?
> >
> >  The taskbar could set its cursor to a flipped one, if it'd be on a panel
> > positioned at the bottom edge, but it seems there's no standard (or
> > reasonably widely available) cursor showing arrow pointing down.
>
> But a flipped cursor can be created via code, can't it?

 Not with themes. But make enough cursor themes authors add such cursor shape, 
and then there should be no problem if you patch the taskbar to use it.

> > Bye bye
> > themeable pointer cursors. (Having something like a recommended set of
> > cursors could be indeed useful.)
> >
> >  Moreover, I wonder if there's really such a problem in practice. I have
> > my taskbar at the bottom edge, and I work with it by bumping to the
> > bottom edge. And I've never noticed this problem. I simply position the
> > mouse above the item I want, when I can still see the cursor, and then
> > just move down, and hit.
>
> So the problem is not there because you don't feel it? :)

 Well, not for me, at least. Although I can see it. Maybe it'd be even better 
if X automatically changed the normal arrow cursor to flipped shapes when 
near the bottom/right, this way there would be no such problem, and the 
solution wouldn't be just taskbar specific. But then you need to talk to 
different people.

> What you said means you don't move in a straight line. Instead, I prefer
> to move roughly in a straight line to the button. Since I move very
> quickly, most of the time I miss it, and I find myself with the pointer
> invisible and on the wrong button. I would like to finetune only
> horizontally, but I can't.
>
> Maybe if you tried to keep the kicker on top for a few days, then get
> back to the bottom, you would take this habit too.

 I can't, I have a menubar there. And I aim there first horizontally too.

-- 
Lubos Lunak
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