Bug 383146 - Support larger cursor size
Summary: Support larger cursor size
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 363147
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.10.4
Platform: Manjaro Linux
: NOR normal
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Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2017-08-05 00:23 UTC by Brennan Kinney
Modified: 2017-09-07 18:56 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Brennan Kinney 2017-08-05 00:23:41 UTC
System Settings -> Workspace Theme -> Cursor Theme

Bottom right is a big dropdown button. Usually but not always with the options: "resolution dependent", 24, 48. I just checked with my machine and I also have a 36 size.

I setup a laptop with KDE/Plasma for a user with vision difficulties, one of their needs was a large cursor like they had on macOS. 48 was still too small for them on their 1080p display.

They usually need to use the Kwin zoom effect which gives a larger albeit pixelated cursor in addition to content around the cursor being zoomed including text.

I'm not sure if cursors are bitmaps or vectors, but if the default Breeze ones could at the very least support larger sizes that would be greatly appreciated.

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In addition to the cursor size, when applied, there seems to be a mix of the prior size and the new size depending on what the cursor is interacting with. On the system settings window, the resize cursors are the smaller original size and the default pointer is small when hovering over the windows titlebar area. This may cause some confusion or seem buggy. 

Unlike Fonts DPI this doesn't appear to be applied to new windows(existing Dolphin window had inconsistencies, new instance had no inconsistencies but used the small original size). It's corrected with a reboot, a warning dialog like Font DPI presents could be useful to avoid user confusion.

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TL;DR: Please consider supporting larger sizes like 60 and 72, if cursors are vector based a custom size would be great. If cursors are bitmaps but use vectors as source assets, a tool that could resize and rasterize the theme could address that too for supported themes?
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2017-08-05 12:33:38 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 363147 ***
Comment 2 Brennan Kinney 2017-08-06 04:43:24 UTC
(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #1)
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> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 363147 ***

They are similar due to request for new cursor sizes(I'll add the larger sizes as a comment on that bug), this report also addresses rendering consistency issues when applying the cursor size change. Suggested fix, a dialog warning similar to the one for Font DPI.
Comment 3 Roman Gilg 2017-09-07 18:56:01 UTC
Abandon this report here and copy the parts not covered by the other bug report in new ones (make sure you are always only addressing one issue / feature wish per bug report).