On 11/26/2014 12:12 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:02:02 +0000 Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said: > >> On 11/24/2014 11:11 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: [...] >>> did you look at input -> mouse ... there is size there. >> >> That's where it fails (ie has zero effect). > > works here. e's cursor changes size.
The problem must be with my laptop screen driver or something non-e-related, in that case. No matter what I change, the mouse pointer and cursor remain the same...except when the pointer moves into the grab-zone at the edge of windows: then it momentarily changes to the size I asked for. Everywhere else, it's the default size for the theme. > that's the point of the scale factor. you need everything 2x as big. scale > factor is 2. cursor gets 2x the size too (if marked to scale). But that's my point. Let's say that 2x is the ideal size for my kind of work: windows that fit, menus etc that I can work with. All except the cursor/pointer, which is way too small for me to see properly. I don't want to use 3x or 4x: I just want to be able to enlarge the pointer size independently of the theme scale. >> I think the designer may have overlooked the fact that the visibility of >> the cursor on a laptop screen is poor when the mouse is small, because >> accelerated movement is not updated to the cursor during fast motion, so >> it effectively disappears from the screen. > > ? the cursor moves every single screen refresh. it doesnt go pause or drop > movement when it accelerates (acceleration is actually just multiplying the > delta x and y values by some number when they exceed some threshold). That may be so, but when I want to find the cursor on the screen (having perhaps not used it for a while, eg write writing or editing in Emacs, where I tend to use keystrokes), I wiggle the mouse in the hope that my eyes will spot some movement. But it takes a while before I can see anything moving, the cursor/arrow is so small. I suspect the problem is that theme designers are younger than I am, and have excellent eyesight :-) so they are unaware of the problem. ///Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
