• ahornsirup@feddit.org
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      1 month ago

      Yeah. It’s one of those things where I’m sure it’s genuinely useful to some people but why on Earth is it on by default?!

        • ahornsirup@feddit.org
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          1 month ago

          Fair. It still should be communicated better though, because it really does feel like a bug when you first encounter it.

          • Anivia@feddit.org
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            1 month ago

            MacOS had that feature for a long time, it’s pretty intuitive. I’ve never heard of someone thinking it’s a bug despite MacOS being very mainstream nowadays

            • ahornsirup@feddit.org
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              1 month ago

              We clearly live in different bubbles because this is the first time I’ve seen someone refer to MacOS as “very mainstream”. iOS, sure, but I haven’t seen many Macs out in the wild. It’s certainly not common to the point where people would expect MacOS behaviour as the default.

              • Anivia@feddit.org
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                1 month ago

                MacOS has 25% market share for desktop operating systems in the United States. That counts as mainstream to me

                • ahornsirup@feddit.org
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                  1 month ago

                  Around 15% here in Germany. That’s more than I expected, but it isn’t mainstream. At least not in the sense that people will expect MacOS behaviour by default on their computers, or even to the point where you can expect familiarity with MacOS from most users.

            • Pandasdontfly@lemmy.today
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              1 month ago

              Personally I’m going to have to agree with them as well I installed Kde recently and this exact feature I thought was a bug. When digging around on Google for about 15 minutes before realizing it was a feature I had to turn off.

          • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
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            1 month ago

            As the other commenter said, when I first encountered it I whaybI though was that they put the Mac wiggle.

          • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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            1 month ago

            I didn’t mean that the feature is universally available. I meant that lots of people will intuitively start moving their mouse to find the cursor, because our eyes are good at spotting motion and because it might be placed somewhere which matches its color.

            Maybe not everyone starts shaking rapidly enough to trigger the feature, but well, you don’t want it activating all the time either…

      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Re: on by default

        IMHO, the problem isn’t that it’s on by default, it’s the fine tuning of the feature. The velocity and pattern needed to trigger it + the lack of a reasonable max scale.

        MacOS has had this on by default for a decade, but it feels more intentional when it appears. Meanwhile, I litterally still see KDE threads from people trying to troubleshoot “bugs” about their cursor size.

        The KDE cursor needs about 15 min of a motion designer sitting next to the engineer that coded this.

  • Adderbox76@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Is that what that is?! It just randomly started happening and I thought an update screwed up my compositor.

    So with that question answered, how the hell do I turn it off, because it’s annoying as hell.

  • lunachocken@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Hold sys/win+ + key

    …big through zoom. Now keep going, you’ll enter a different universe.

  • macniel@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    Sadly, as soon you hit printscreen (which opens spectacle) the mouse cursor unceremoniously returns to its original size. No shrinking, just plop.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      I was going to suggest setting a delay in Spectacle, but seems like the enlarged mouse cursor does not show up in screenshots, even if you set “Include mouse pointer”…