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

  • From: Justin Stressman <jstressman@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:41:09 -0400

>
> While I definitely agree with your sentiment here, and I too have
> thought about making the default Haiku cursor an arrow, there really
> is no good reason to do that beyond "every OS other does that." In
> fact Axel makes a good point that as a representation of your hand, it
> sort of makes more sense if the cursor icon is a hand. Lastly we have
> a certain "BeOS brand" that we want to maintain and the hand cursor is
> part of that. If we change that the next thing you know we will get
> rid of the yellow tabs. Maybe that will happen someday, but for now we
> are trying to replicate BeOS R5, and BeOS R5 had a hand cursor and
> yellow tabs as a major part of its identity.
>
>
I agree with this. That's part of the reason I tried to keep the black up
arrow in the hand like Be had, but still make the hand a little more
distinctive. It's not so much the hand I personally have a problem with... I
think it's kind of neat. :) It was just the lack of a distinction between
the normal hand pointer and the link hover pointer.

I was trying to sort of take the best of both worlds... to increase the
visual distinction while staying as close to the original Be cursor as
possible in spirit.

(Of course I'd want Stippi to try to fix it and make it look better, as he's
the master of the Haiku style. I was just doing a rough mock-up to
illustrate my idea.) ;)

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