Wolfgang
/etc witchwhoever implemented KDE's "waggle the mouse to make it bigger" thing and decided it should have no end point of getting bigger should win a software engineering award
the response to this post makes me think there should be an actual award for features of this nature
veetee
Shalien@shalien they did not do the KDE implementation nor does theirs infinitely grow
Alexia ΘΔShow me the @apple.com email authored commits
Not a Spring Onion@iliana Forwards compatible to the 32K screens of 2032
Peeeeeaaaaaarl@iliana OH MY GOD I DIDNT KNOW IT WAS INFINITE LMAO IVE NEVER TRIED THAT FAR
jade☆ish 
@iliana i discovered this and was laughing my ass off when i couldn't see any part of my screen behind my mouse
Paul Hansen@iliana For awhile this was the only way my cursor would show up in discord screen recordings, something changed about how it was rendered when it got bigger and it would show up. So when I wanted to point at something in a call, I'd shake my pointer at it.
Now that it works again I'm almost disappointed I don't have a reason to do it anymore.
Jes - Hedgehog Edition 
Cluster of Tetrahedrons
Ember is so tired of people. 
DianeThat is pretty neat and user friendly.
vriska, thief of light 
@iliana iirc this was a "it's not a bug it's a feature" situation
@iliana nm it was on purpose
@leo do you have the commit handy
Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!!@leo @iliana That's just making it so that the cursor has a minimum magnification from the get go (so when the wiggle triggers it jumps up to a certain size), it doesn't change the way to grows without bound.
Edit: Actually I think it just makes it so it can't shrink until after a timeout. So it still doesn't change the limiting factor, just makes it more consistent.
@iliana I hope they never fix that, because it's already perfection and fixing it would make it worse imo
jake :3@iliana i want to install kde just to try this
Cromley@iliana Agreed! If I could get my low-vision spouse off macOS this would be reason enough to pick KDE
Michael K@VoiceofDuum @iliana fwiw it’s been a feature in macos for a long time, so perhaps might be worth looking at. it IS a great feature - one of those little things that make life so much better. :)
Kewlio: gideo vames?!@iliana I just celebrated this feature with a good shaking.
tends 
@iliana I keep mousescaling when I'm bored in meetings it's perfect
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
mav 
@iliana
For real, one of the coolest features I've seen in years
For real, one of the coolest features I've seen in years
bdha
Joshua M. Clulow
Mon@iliana omg, I have been a "gnome guy" all my life but now I do need to test this marvelous feature
Frost, ᛁᛊᛟᛚᚠᚱ 🐺❄️
@iliana I really really wish this feature worked on X11!!
Kg. Madee Ⅱ.
KDE Plasmagood thing they made the cursors SVGs shortly after
Rob@iliana hahaha so I'm not the only one who wiggles the mouse endlessly to watch it
recursive 🏳️🌈@iliana this makes me want to install KDE
Miakoda 
@recursive @iliana *whsipering* Dooooo iiiiiit
Petra@iliana I wish every DE had this
ꓤɔᴉʇɐʇS@iliana It only makes sense I mean the user could have a very very very very very very very very very very very large screen so if there was a cap it may never get big enough to find it on that very very very very very very very very very very very large screen!
Dr. Sobek@iliana They wanted a bigger ... mouse cursor ... than Apple, clearly 😏
Daniël Franke 
@iliana Yep, I waggle the mouse often just because of this, oh and because of ADHD fidgeting, of course.
Joacim Jacobsson@iliana If you can find a way to introduce them to whoever it was that decided that you can't zoom as much as you like on phone apps you would be declared a hero.
Henryk Plötz@jjacobsson @iliana My first introduction to fixed zoom levels was ~15 years ago when I already had a Full HD projector. The dpi was roughly correctly reported as something like 30 dpi to X. Meaning an A4 page was displayed as 350x248 pixels. And evince (I believe) had a maximum "magnification" of 400% -> 1400x992 pixels.
Didek
Charlotte 
/Cinny 
@iliana
The funniest thing that almost certainly they didn't write it to do that
They simply didn't write code to make it not do that. Kudos for omitting that code
The funniest thing that almost certainly they didn't write it to do that
They simply didn't write code to make it not do that. Kudos for omitting that code
Ibly 🏳️⚧️ 
@charlotte @iliana nope, according to another reply, this is on purpose
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/0a5bd7397bfce7c880bd8d783349d3985091e6e5
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/0a5bd7397bfce7c880bd8d783349d3985091e6e5
@charlotte oh yeah? well what i'm saying is i'm petting you gently 
@EeveeEuphoria
Neoskunk emoji when
Neoskunk emoji when
@charlotte @EeveeEuphoria whether the decision was intentional or not i think they still get the award
@charlotte @iliana it's funny too cuz the cursor was originally a much smaller bitmap file, so even the base maginifaciont had glaring pixelation until they updated it lol
@EeveeEuphoria
@iliana probably was a while ago then lmao, I have always used standard (100%) or smaller magnification settings
@iliana probably was a while ago then lmao, I have always used standard (100%) or smaller magnification settings
Kay Ohtie@EeveeEuphoria @charlotte @iliana it always felt like it was an intentional oversight as a fun silly Easter egg that doesn't end up hurting anything
gravitos 
@iliana i mean theres no limit to how big you can make a display and if you have a 40K display a small mouse might be hard to see