I find this hilarious. Is this an easter egg? When shaking my mouse cursor, I can get it to take up the whole screens height.

This is KDE Plasma 6.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    141·
    3 days ago

    Why would shaking the cursor make it bigger in the first place? Is this an accessibility feature to find the cursor?

      • lad@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        MacOS does this, but on screen recording it never shows it. Feels good to see Linux records what user actually saw

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
        5·
        3 days ago

        Can’t tell if lazy programming or just figuring it will fix itself. In theory there would be a point of overflow maybe? Well, I guess that also fixes itself.

        • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          I assume the KDE implementation resizes to default when you stop shaking it.

          I could totally see someone coding a function that increases the mouse pointer by x% every y mouse shakes, and then neglecting to put in a size cap.

          • moonpiedumplings@programming.devOPEnglish
            4·
            3 days ago

            I could totally see someone coding a function that increases the mouse pointer by x% every y mouse shakes, and then neglecting to put in a size cap.

            This feature used to be in KDE 5 as well though, but with a size cap. I suspect the removal of the size cap is intentional rather than a bug.

          • Rhaedas@fedia.io
            1·
            3 days ago

            Yes, it resets once motion is stopped. It’s one of those things where without comments in the code or something you could also assume forgetting to check one of the bounds just happened to work fine.