Re: [Usability] Hiding the mouse pointer when inactive

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 16:41 -0800, Corey Burger wrote:
> IMHO, it is a good general principle that programs should hide the
> mouse pointer when the mouse is in active and the person is typing.
> However, I cannot see anything in the HIG either way.

I'm not entirely convinced it's a HIG issue; if it happened in one app
I'd probably expect it to happen in all of them, which would make it a
toolkit issue, really.  The HIG tries not to deal with those; they're
usually discussed and settled on the lists or in bug reports.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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