SUMMARY I tried wayland and kde plasma with neon-unstable-20231119-1118 iso and when I tried to use the desktop my cursor when using a graphic tablet was a cross shape. It changed to adwaita arrow inside firefox and then normal plasma breeze arrow inside xwayland application. This results in fairly inconsistency cursor ideally all the cursor should be of one family. If the goal is to differentiate various devices then all app should use the same cursor while using that device and there should be more p[leasant cursor instead of a cross cursor for other device perhaps a cursor with slight variation in value like gray etc. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Download neon-unstable-20231119-1118 iso 2. Login to plasma desktop 3. use any graphic tablet and observe the cursor OBSERVED RESULT Cursor should be normal plasma cursor EXPECTED RESULT Cursor is now a cross cursor.
Can reproduce the cursor being a cross in native Wayland Qt apps.
In addition to the odd cursor the cursor also doesn't change to show grab handles and other things. So it becomes hard to grab a window and resize it while using a tablet.
Technically speaking it's up to the application to provide a (tablet) cursor image. That means some amount of inconsistencies are likely unavoidable. Qt doesn't seem to specify a tablet cursor at all, so KWin uses the fallback crosshair cursor. Changing that to another xcursor shape would be trivial. Personally speaking I kind of like the crosshair cursor though
The cursor doesn't change when hovering over the edge of the window so resize and other operations become troublesome. Also I think applications do provide cursors like firefox provides adwaita cursors. krita will provide the tool cursor I think But on the desktop the crosshair cursor as a default is not so much useful in my opinion. If the user needs they should be able to choose it I think.
See also https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-105843