Thank you, Paul, for responding.
Note the IMAGE you sent was most useful and I'm VERY grateful the link? Not so
much...
It is an accessibility feature for people who have poor hand eye
coordination
— and multiple monitors. If you don't need it, turn it off :
I STRONGLY suggest it NOT be the default.
However, the articulation here is incorrect:
https://discuss.kde.org/t/6-1-plasma-mouse-sticking-a-bit-more-to-screen-edges/17437
That's the very first place I looked! BUT...
It's NOT on, "Mouse & Touchpad > Screen Edges," but as your image shows Display
& Monitor -> Screen Edges -> Edge barrier.
Note also that I instinctively went to the mouse settings where the linked
article suggests and therefore I propose this "feature" be controllable from
either (that is, in both locations) so other people don't experience the
profound frustration I went through: I wasn't anxious to give up on KDE but
damn if this wasn't a SUPER good reason to put it in my rear-view mirror. It's
a fair bet I wasn't - am not - alone.
Just because it is a mild annoyance to you, doesn't mean it isn't necessary
for others.
If you think this was "a mild annoyance", you seriously misread my postings - I
guess I was far too polite! If I said it like it was, you'd be upset with me
for my use of foul language. It's a "throw this piece of garbage out" type of
"mild."
I never said it wasn't useful to someone only that I didn't see the use-case. I
still can't imagine that need is held by a majority. And as a new feature
thrown in by an "upgrade" its presence was not only unwelcome it was downright
anger-generating because it's so incredibly time-wasting. Since you knew it was
there, not an issue for you.
I GETTING TO KNOW YOU, a little, Paul. Your continual and usually patient calls
to users to get involved is heard. It's not that I don't care at all, its that
I'm already over-committed in other areas, and in the field of Open Source
Software, I've already got four iron's in the fire. NOTE that my ask was for
WHERE to discuss this because it wasn't (and remains not) clear to me just what
part of KDE to which this pertains - Mouse? Screens? Compositor? IDK.
Unlike the developers of KDE, many of us use KDE only as a tool and aren't
devoted to everything KDE, have super-busy lives and don't want to have to
spend a lot of time _after_ being forced into unwanted update to pick up on all
sorts of obscure setting we don't know we need to care about just to get on
with things.
Please take my comments in the manner intended; suggestions for improvement
with other similar changes in the future. If you're going to introduce
potentially time-wasting settings, either call it out with unavoidable visual
noise to be sure we all got it or, _much_better_ ensure it's OFF as the default
state. Those who need "accessability options" can go look and find them - it's
not the feature, it's that it's a substantial change that blindsides with no
visibility where a user might intuitively go look.
Thanks again, Paul, I was lookinkg to ditch KDE over this issue.
Paul
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