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I really love this feature, it gives me something to do while waiting for pages to load in Firefox.
When I connect to my living room TV, I can have a cursor over three feet tall.
My daughter holds the current household record by getting the cursor size so big that the whole screen is blank.
This is genuinely a useful feature for people who easily lose their cursor.
Didn't notice this before literally this made me test it.
I'll be happy when the cursor can be inverted color like windows.
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'm talking about a windows feature that activity changes the cursor to be the inverse of the content underneath it. If content = black, then curosr = white. If content = white, then cursor = black.
It's not so simple as downloading a curosr pack with different colored icons.
I searched the web and results are all just various forms with the feature requested, but no feature. One rumor floating around is Windows might have a patent on it or something, but I didn't go digging for that info.
I did not know this existed, this is amazing
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!
That was the thing I texted my friends about when I started using KDE. π I loved it, perfect self-affording feature.
I use it probably ten times a day!
I sometimes do it at work out of boredom
I knew the cursor got bigger but I didn't know it would keep growing.
It jumps up quickly to a bigger size and then keeps increasing more slowly if you keep shaking it.
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.
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.
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.
I'm a GNOME user and extensions are pretty easy to install. I use the wiggly extension for the mouse shake to grow thing, but unfortunately it has a maximum size of 256 which is plenty big enough to find it but you can't shake it forever until it grows bigger than the screen. GNOME 0 KDE 1 π₯²
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
Sadly my problems are with buggy applications, and hdr (more of a monitor issue than plasma itself). I'm hoping these get patched as more people yell at bad wayland support and poorly implemented hdr.
Somehow, under GNOME things "just work". Or at least it doesn't take down the entire session.
fuck it, we ~~ball~~ cube
This is KDE we're talking about, so it would definitely be "fuck it, we kube".
"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.
wait what this is a thing? brb
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.
