macOS also has this feature under the name “Shake mouse pointer to locate”.
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CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 weeks agoTheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
kautau@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah I think it been a Mac feature since like 2018, but more newly adopted in KDE. But either way it’s just a help UX idea, and potential aligns with someone’s behavior of just like moving the mouse fast to verify it’s still working
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Apple added it in 2015.
It was on Linux longer. The focus follows the mouse was another that I would like to see native
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was on Linux longer.
I’m fairly sure that didn’t become a thing in KDE until 2024 or 25
mrnobody@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Windows, since 7 (2009ish), had a feature to hit CTRL which zeros in on the mouse to find it if you can’t find it. On my 3x 19" LCDs I had, it was handy to have that 3" circle close in on it.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m vaguely sure this was already in MacOS when I got my Macbook in early 2010s.
CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
KDE’s is different (and better) in that it seemingly has no cap on the size you can make the cursor. You can get your cursor bigger than your display.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It’s so well implemented, I sent it to a bunch of my friends saying something like “good accessibility and good design often are the same thing”
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Accessibility causes developers to implement users a choice on design.
The original intent of css was we’d influence pages with out own design but that never happened.
Night mode is accessibility lifted to a feature.
Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
HOLY SHIT THAT’S WHY IT DOES THAT?!?!?! I learn something new about Linux on this platform every day.
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Hell yeah! And if you do a three finger pinch on a trackpad it does a magnifying zoom onto your cursor! Super handy on my 13" laptop
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
KDE Plasma is so fucking good these days it’s amazing to me that people voluntarily use Windows
derek@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
It is also a sexual innuendo.
mech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I wanna put that innuendo in your end-o, if you know what I meANALSEX
luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
meANALSEX
Subtle as a pounding
mech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
That pun went right over my head.
And then moved back and forth rapidly, until I had an orgasm and ejaculated my semen into it.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Still doesn’t help in finding where your cursor is currently.
Even worse when running multiple VMs.
Half a dozen blinking cursors, but only one of them is actually active…spitfire@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Same in macOS
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
There’s a gnome extension called Wiggly that does a similar thing 👍
thurstylark@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
My favorite part is that it keeps getting bigger as you continue shaking it, eventually resulting in a big-ass cursor that can’t be contained in one display lol
…What? I was bored…
___qwertz___@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I, too, use KDE at work.