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    [–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (17 children)

    lmao When they implemented it I first thought this was one of those obscure KDE bugs.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    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?!

    [–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Because shaking your cursor to spot it is kind of universal?

    [–] Jumuta 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I don't think it's a thing on windows?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    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...

    [–] Jumuta 1 points 1 month ago
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