Re: [Usability] Locating the mouse pointer when it is on the bottom of the screen?

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, John Keller wrote:

> True, it's just that programming an application then becomes full of 
> special cases. (Not talking about drawing programs, but radio buttons 
> vs. text-filled buttons, for example.)

It seems to me that a lowel level toolkit or something should take care 
of that. Application programmers should be unaffected.

> rotating arrow becomes disconcerting. I would expect that, on some 
> unconscious level, a user would be disconcerted by his virtual "hand" being 
> so free to rotate through 360 degrees. Not to mention that the "joint" - the 
> pivot point - is the tip, not the base.

I don't think this really is a concern. In the UI on a computer, we 
don't have the physical restraints from the real world - why try to 
replicate them?

regards,

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