Haha I'm so glad I'm not the only one who fucks up his hand doing this for no reason, one of the best things about transitioning to Linux
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Calling Gnome simple and straightforward is quite a funny joke actually
But ar least it's without features that ~~few~~ people are going to use, so there's that.
I have fun with that cursor. Win for KDE
Honestly I really like both.
Kdeβs mouse growing big is actually useful though.
Ever lose your mouse? Just a wiggle- which is an action I take anyway to find it- and it gets easier to find, for a moment.
Lets me make the mouse tiny.
That's coincidentally also what I do when I can't find my dick
Yes, and the low-resolution pointer when you do this excessively is just unacceptable. I'm glad they're finally addressing this pressing concern.
The just added a high res image or whatever rather than scaling it up. Someone probably fixed it in their spare time.
What? Why isn't it just a vector graphic?
Because it uses the XCursor format, which is a quite old standard. Getting apps to switch to a newer standard that has vector graphics is already hard enough. Getting them to do so without burning your GPU is basically impossible.
You have to re-render vector graphics when you zoom in. Otherwise they have the same pixels stored in memory as when they were first opened.
You are always viewing a bitmap image because you have a bitmap display and it makes sense they don't load a full size cursor into memory to get rendered.
I'd be curious as to if they've rendered a full size image to sit in memory, or re-render the vector image directly as it grows.
Given the way games work re-rendering would be trivial for any computer running KDE so I'd take that bet.
I would assume they replaced it with an SVG that is rasterized on demand instead of a very high resolution rasterized image.
In terms of coding effort, just replacing a PNG is the easiest, but it's also the least correct solution, imo.
I went and read the commit descriptions.
Previously it was using whatever cursor the theme had loaded and just scaled it up. Now it references the full set of resources for the theme and picks the appropriate one for the size.
So they went with the most correct third option: defer to the standard set by a more authoritative source. :)
KDE remains the superior choice.
I don't need this feature even a little bit.
In lieu of this, I have consistently used this feature at least twice a week ever since I found it by accident. It adds a little joy to my day.
I think itβs more βI found a thing thatβs technically wrong and fixed itβ and that shit pays dividends down the road when technology changes and people forget this was ever an issue. They solved it now so they donβt have to solve it later.
Hahahahahaahaha almost broke my wrist shaking the mouse to see how big I could get the cursor go grow. Does it ever stop?
No, it does not.
It stopped for me, when I discovered functionality. At about an inch big.
You know what doesn't get bigger when you shake it?
Babies.
JFC, lol
JFC, lol
Unknown file formats
Finally, I was having issues with the blurriness of the big pointer
The new update broke my login screen but god damn the big pointer is crisp.
I shake it 4 times a day for health and meditation purposes.
common KDE w
So even though I have been using KDE for months now, I had no idea that the cursor would continue to get bigger if you keep shaking it, thats amazing.
The first patch of big cursor put a cap on the size as it was a bug for it to keep getting larger. But due to popular demand the cap was removed and set as a toggle.
I love that the devs respond to feedback. Take notes gnome devs.
If I read bad news I start shaking the mouse angrily. The big cursor then hides the news I am reading and I can calm down again. Please reenable ridiculously big cursor, ty.
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