[haiku] Re: the new link cursor, and mouse cursors in general.

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:15:00 +0100 CET

Le Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:41:15 +0100, Axel Dörfler a écrit :
> Justin Stressman <jstressman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This made me think about whether or not BeOS, and by extension 
> > Haiku, 
> > were
> > just using the hand to be different... or whether there was a valid 
> > reason
> > for not using the arrow like everyone else. Sometimes being 
> > different 
> > just
> > for the sake of being different isn't necessarily a good thing.
> 
> I don't really think there is much of a difference when using the 
> two, 
> so why not? Why break with your identity for nothing?
> Apart from that, the mouse is the replacement for your hand, not a 
> cursor :-)
> 
> I wouldn't mind making the link cursor more obvious, though, although 
> I 
> haven't actually seen it in use (or have I, and just not noticed? ;-
> ))

Is it actually used in AboutSystem for the urls ?

François.

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