| Summary: | Accessibility Feature Request: Force cursor size & theme for all applications | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Plasma] kwin | Reporter: | kiwifruit |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | kde, kiwifruit, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | master | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | openSUSE | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | disco elysium cursor | ||
I'd love this as much as you would, but unfortunately for technical reasons enforcing a cursor size is not something we can force on all apps. Enforcing cursor shapes/themes is possible but would break apps quite badly; apps would be unable to show busy cursors, eyedropper cursors, resize cursors, etc. Ultimately more apps need to add support for the cursor-shape Wayland protocol, and then everything will work as expected. (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Enforcing cursor shapes/themes is possible but would break apps quite badly; apps > would be unable to show busy cursors, eyedropper cursors, resize cursors, > etc. Perhaps this would still work correctly as a per-window / per-application override? I know most games just show a simple cursor without much shape changes, so it wouldn't really matter that much if it didn't change state correctly. Also, if you can barely see the cursor because it's too small, does it really matter that it can't show a different state (busy, eyedropper, resize, etc)? > Ultimately more apps need to add support for the cursor-shape Wayland > protocol, and then everything will work as expected. This would basically never happen for abandonware, though I would love if it did. I don't think we can, sorry. This is one of those situations where if we try to be smart, we'll run into ten thousand edge cases and make it dumb again. And if we offer user-configurability of this, we're simply exposing users to the same thing. |
Created attachment 175628 [details] disco elysium cursor SUMMARY I have a high DPI monitor (4K - 32 inches). I also play some games that love to apply custom cursor themes. The cursor size can be an issue with older games that apply a custom cursor theme to the cursor. Usually the older the game, the more likely it is to have not considered high DPI monitors in its design. This can lead to ridiculously tiny and very hard to see cursors. I would greatly benefit from some accessibility setting that either: * Forces the cursor to be a specific size (even if it's blurry) * Forces the cursor theme, basically ignores custom themes provided by applications. The only example I have on my mind right now is: Disco Elysium (attachment provided) SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241105 KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.7.0 Qt Version: 6.8.0 Kernel Version: 6.11.5-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor Memory: 31.0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT