josefi find visual studio code weirdly unusable and it's taken me years to work out why: the fucking hand cursor. all the clickable UI elements change the mouse cursor to a goddamn hand! and theres no way to switch it off. my workaround every time i encounter this issue every couple years is to close visual studio code and uninstall it
there's a couple of issues open on this and one was closed as "not a bug, this is intentional, we really want our program thats actually a web page to feel like a web page" and the other is still open, with some comments a couple weeks ago like "yo is this ever going to be looked at, it should be like 8 lines of code to make this a config option surely"
im sure you can do per-application cursor overrides on linux by creating some files called like cursor.override.d/10-disable-hand-cursors-vscode.conf inside a maze of directories that will stop working in 3 months when you update the window manager, or on windows by installing a 10kb exe called "Bud's Cursor Smasher" that sits in the system tray with a little icon of bud himself giving you a thumbs up and a tooltip keeping track of Number Of Cursor's Smashed
on unix, everything is a file, whereas, on windows 9x, everything is an interactive desktop buddy
when i set up a linux desktop machine, i'm like "oh jeez how the fuck did i get that thing to work the way i wanted 5 years ago. i've copied my dotfiles and it's still not working, and i have no way of remembering all the extremely dull-sounding configuration directories i'm supposed to look in" whereas setting up a windows machine i'm like "hell yeah, i want Bob's Configuration Configurator, i want Spiderman5000's Windows Defenestrator, i want Tweakfucker's Ultimate Utility Script,
it's a journey, setting a new windows install, it's like blues brothers, youre getting all these guys from the shareware forums back together to play one last Remove Tracking Services for the orphans down in Task Manager
june@jk and they all come back after an update (edge is especially hard to get rid of permanently in my experience)
tibi@jk I've been making a list of all the windows tweaks I got going and yeah, I've been surprised how many Guys Militant About That One Little UI Issue I got in here. Some dude made an alternate i-beam cursor. Absolutely essential
Chris [list of emoji]Back when I needed to regularly spin up a new disposable Windows VM for work, I ended up writing a bunch of scripts in Git Bash and Powershell and Cygwin Bash and chocolatey that I could clone from a repo and do all of the setup for me.
Fortunately, those days are... starting again next Wednesday.
I really hope nothing has broken.
Shared trophy wife@jk Big mood comrade.
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🎏@jk And this is why windows is secretly superior for configurability.
Craig Timpany@jk On Windows NT, everything is an object (they took the googly eyes off the buddies)
I'm going to have this toot translated to ancient Persian and inscribed onto a fired clay tablet.
@jk I've literally never noticed it as I navigate using the keyboard 90% of the time, but now this will bug the hell out of me. Thanks.
electrical tape@jk which os are you using? i don’t think i get that but i run macos high sierra
@walterjizz this is on windows, but i think it happened to me on linux too a few years ago? not sure if i've ever run it on a mac, i think my mac era ended in about 2017
Bálint Szilakszi@jk got to hand it to you, you have principles
Portable doggie 🔜 NFC@jk does vscode not give access to its css? if it does a simple fix would just be *{cursor: pointer !important}
@dogo maybe it does! looking at the settings i can't find a way to inject user CSS, it looks like they assemble the styling from a bunch of variables in the settings page, so there's probably some kind of CSS template somewhere, but possibly not supposed to be user-editable? (also not sure whether that'd override the text selection I-beam cursor too?)
@jk ah yeah itll prolly override the i beam, you may need to add another override or just target only the offending divs instead
@jk ive never messed much w vscode mind u, much prefer sublime text
@dogo yeah sublime text has been my go-to for like 10 years, it just feels a lot nicer and snappier to me
wb x64@wilbr @dogo there's definitely things i'd change about it, i'd prefer more actual GUIs in the program since i'm not a huge fan of json files for configuration or having to access frequently-used functions through the command palette. also for code-editing it'd be nice to have a symbol browser in the sidebar? but other than those it's essentially perfect software
@wilbr @dogo weirdly enough i adore the blender command palette and use it constantly, so maybe it's because blender isn't already about editing text, so using a text-input UI to edit 3D models seems okay but using a text-input UI to edit text feels weird? or maybe the key combo or the search accuracy in the blender one is better or something
@wilbr i think the blender UI is good now but i don't know how much of that is it actually getting better or me getting used to it
@wilbr i do think that it's literally the only big software application, like, seriously large with an extremely broad number of features, that is actually getting better over time
Robert Atkins@jk Web “apps” suck, full stop. Why in the stuttering fuck would you want JavaScript in your goddamn editor?!
Kuba Orlik@jk isn't it just an Electron app? Maybe you could change that with some css?
* {
cursor: default!important;
}