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Yeah. It's one of those things where I'm sure it's genuinely useful to some people but why on Earth is it on by default?!
Because shaking your cursor to spot it is kind of universal?
Fair. It still should be communicated better though, because it really does feel like a bug when you first encounter it.
MacOS had that feature for a long time, it's pretty intuitive. I've never heard of someone thinking it's a bug despite MacOS being very mainstream nowadays
We clearly live in different bubbles because this is the first time I've seen someone refer to MacOS as "very mainstream". iOS, sure, but I haven't seen many Macs out in the wild. It's certainly not common to the point where people would expect MacOS behaviour as the default.
MacOS has 25% market share for desktop operating systems in the United States. That counts as mainstream to me
Around 15% here in Germany. That's more than I expected, but it isn't mainstream. At least not in the sense that people will expect MacOS behaviour by default on their computers, or even to the point where you can expect familiarity with MacOS from most users.
As the other commenter said, when I first encountered it I whaybI though was that they put the Mac wiggle.
I don't think it's a thing on windows?
I didn't mean that the feature is universally available. I meant that lots of people will intuitively start moving their mouse to find the cursor, because our eyes are good at spotting motion and because it might be placed somewhere which matches its color.
Maybe not everyone starts shaking rapidly enough to trigger the feature, but well, you don't want it activating all the time either...
ah I see
It's a thing in macOS, however it doesn't infinitely grow lmao
Re: on by default
IMHO, the problem isn’t that it’s on by default, it’s the fine tuning of the feature. The velocity and pattern needed to trigger it + the lack of a reasonable max scale.
MacOS has had this on by default for a decade, but it feels more intentional when it appears. Meanwhile, I litterally still see KDE threads from people trying to troubleshoot “bugs” about their cursor size.
The KDE cursor needs about 15 min of a motion designer sitting next to the engineer that coded this.