On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 21:37:23 +0000 Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said:
> On 10/01/2023 19:20, Wido wrote: > > Hi Carsten! I appreciate that you always take the time to respond to users > > He's the best! > > >> E has its own cursors that uses the efl/e theme. if you use > >> something else then "you're mileage may vary". efl's cursors will > >> scale based on scale factor. there is no good reason to set cursor > >> size as pointers will follow the same scale factor as everything > >> else. > > This is an unrecognised problem in all interfaces. Pointer size is > probably the only item that needs to be scalable *independently* of the > system scale factor, because not all screens offer the same degree of > clarity for moving objects (cursors) to remain visible. e has 2 settings. scaling AND a pointer size. pointer size is multiplied by scale factor. 99% of the time people just want/need to adjust scale factor and that's it. not change pointer size. not change font size. just one single setting. 1% of the time - maybe a bit of fiddling is needed but chances are that if you can't see a cursor due to visual acuity problems you can't make out other ui elements either and they all need to get bigger. the mouse pointer is about the size of 2 lines of text by default (given all default sizes). if you can't make out a pointer then you probably can't read the text either... :) > That is, text, menus, icons, sliders, widgets, etc *usually* stay where > they are for long periods, but the mouse pointer is constantly moving. > This is why most systems can be set to blink the cursor when (eg) Ctrl > is pressed, because the cursor can become "lost" among the other > components of the screen. why not just wiggle the mouse? :) also produces motion. but yes - a "fund my pointer" feature doesn't exist in e. you don't want to blink the cursor. you want some kind of "takes a lot of the screen" animation that steadily zooms from a large thing down to where the pointer is now. not a "blink the cursor" as that's about as subtle as the "wiggle your mouse" which needs no special feature to do the same. > Particularly as you grow older, your visual reactivity declines, so it > become harder to spot the cursor, whereas you can still easily see the > more static objects without difficulty. Making *everything* scale just > to get a big cursor is not a good solution: the cursor needs to be > scalable independently of everything else. e's pointer has that. e doesn't have anything to do with x cursor themes... > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
