I'll be happy when the cursor can be inverted color like windows.
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Good news: The feature you want has been a part of KDE since forever. Cursors are fully customizable with different cursor packs being available. Installing a cursor pack is very simple, just look through the different packs, select the one you want and click install. There's so many different kinds available, one is probably to your liking. And if it isn't you can probably find an artist easily enough and commission your own set.
I put my finger under the mouse and it jitters automatically, makes it easy to get the mouse huge so I'm glad they're thinking of users like me.
wait what this is a thing? brb
I will update as soon as I have found my cursor on my 4k screen.
without features that few people are going to use
Every KDE user has shaken the mouse once just to see how big it gets, this is a critical feature!
I sometimes do it at work out of boredom
I use it probably ten times a day!
I did it often until i learned it crashes some games :(
I knew the cursor got bigger but I didn't know it would keep growing.
It all depends on the stimulation.
if your cursor enlarges for over 4 hours please see a doctor
yeah, I have a 65" TV connected and it gets comically large. I wouldn't be nearly as productive without it.
Now that I think about it, I should shake the cursor in KDE more.
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If Gnome ran a restaurant, the waiter chooses the meal for you, and tut & shake their head if you try to deviate from it.
If KDE ran a restaurant, if you shake the menu it'll grow exponentially in size until it fills the restaurant.
The gnome type of restaurant is called prix fixe, and it very much exists.
That type of restaurant tends to be among the best in the world.
Which makes sense. If each day you offer one choice you can make that one really good.
But for someone who doesn't like that specific food it doesn't work. They'd prefer having different options.
Kind of similar with gnome and KDE.
If Gnome ran a restaurant, the waiter chooses the meal for you, and tut & shake their head if you try to deviate from it.
And if you want to add salt and pepper to your meal, there's a convenient store across the street that sells salt and pepper shakers. No, the Gnome restaurant will not be providing them.
GNOME's design philosophy is "we've determined that nobody needs this feature".
KDE's is "we've determined that nobody needs this feature... but it would be really cool, fuck it, we ~~ball~~ cube".
Well who needs systrays anyways? While we're at it, let's remove theming support too! Surely nobody would miss that feature?
I really miss KDE. Sadly my experience with new major versions (5, 6) tends to be that plasma is unstable for daily use for at least a year or two. I'll be back once things settle down a bit.
Plasma 6 has been nothing but great for me! Not a single crash ever since it released. It's nothing like the beginning of Plasma 5
"we've determined that nobody needs this feature"
How? Trust me bro! Users hate features, they get all confused and stuff. That's why nobody should ever choose anything, the OS should just be shit forever. We also get paid by Microsoft and IBM coincidentally.
fuck it, we ~~ball~~ cube
This is KDE we're talking about, so it would definitely be "fuck it, we kube".
The massive cursor during shake is literally what sold two of my friends on Garuda getting them off Windows π idk why I guess the wimsy factor is difficult to account for.
The cube thing from compiz had a similar effect back in the earlier years of Ubuntu.
Compiz was insanely cool, it was better than anything we have today.
We still have Compiz today, you can still run it.
Thanks and yes I know.
But AFAIK it was mostly limited to Ubuntu Unity and XFCE for a long time, and support became shaky.
I actually looked it up just before, and it seems Mint has support for it, but looking at the emerald themes it looks nothing like it did back in the day where it was new and revolutionizing. Also I'm lazy, I don't care to fiddle so much with my computer anymore.
I use burn my windows and desktop cube with Gnome extensions. Kwin still supports many of these effects too. It's fun to see people's reaction.
Some of the effects have become mainstream. But there is no comparison to the real Compiz feel.
For instance the original Emerald windows dresser was amazing, and zooming with the scroll wheel combined with for instance the left win key was extremely useful. The smoothness and configurability of the cube was crazy cool.
What is available today is hollow shells of what we had.
Yes I use wobbly windows in KDE, but Compiz is 100x > Plasma.
Writing fire on the desktop and window animations like burn up on exit were also awesome.
KDE cube always feels like watching a b-movie version starwars. Nailed the wobbly windows though.
Compiz and cairo-dock is peak nostalgic linux for me. Tux surfing around the dock and all.
Oh boy I'm getting all nostalgic, it's 20 years ago it came out now!
Yeah, Compiz and Emerald were the goat!
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I really donβt understand these comments about gnome not being customizable
Because it isn't? Can you even move elements in the top panel?
Then you either haven't used GNOME or haven't used KDE. It's uh, it's not something that's hard to miss as far as differences go.
Oh my gosh finally! I can enjoy the vector experience! Iβve always felt this was missing from KDE. I would show my friends all the benefits of Linux, but when I showed them by wasting approximately 1-2 minutes, you could embiggen your mouse cursor to absurd proportions, their eyes lit up unlike anything before. They wanted it the moment they knew the potential of infinite cursor sizing.
But I often made the amateur mistake of embiggening a few pixels too far and their delight would rapidly plunge into disappointment as they came to the realization that it was simply scaling up a raster render of the cursor in a lazy post-processed Easter egg.
They all leave the room in a huff, sending my attempts to reach out directly to voicemail, unanswered. But this. This will change everything. Thank you KDE. This is what we had all been waiting for.
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I love the big cursor feature. Its great for when I lose track of it.
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Often times when there was a big new update for GNOME, I'd try it out, decide I still don't like the concept and go back to plasma.
I don't get the appeal of that desktop. Even the tiniest changes need gnome-tweaks? Why isn't that stuff part of the base settings? But ok. You can't ungimp GNOME. The usage concept is baked into it. Fine. But why?
I mean there must be people who want this and nothing else, otherwise people wouldn't use it.
For me it kinda always went something like this:
"Hey can I have window labels on my taskbar? And maybe quicklaunch. Also can I type in paths in the file manager?"
KDE: "Sure no prob."
GNOME: "You are an enemy of Christ."
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