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.

  • @[email protected]English
    19•2 months ago

    Yeah, and Windows and OS X both do it as well.

    Though there being no upper limit to the size is amusing.

    • Rhaedas
      5•2 months 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.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•2 months 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.

        • @[email protected]OPEnglish
          4•2 months 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.

          • @[email protected]
            2•2 months ago

            Having a size cap does not make much sense since the increased pointer size is triggered intentionally, meaning if someone keeps shaking the pointer, they must want it bigger (whether for amusement or because they’re hella blind).

        • Rhaedas
          1•2 months 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.

    • ladEnglish
      1•2 months ago

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