[Etoys] Another eToys on XO testemonial

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Nov 20 15:08:38 EST 2008


On 20.11.2008, at 20:21, Takashi Yamamiya wrote:

> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> Well, there actually is a preference indeed to enable the big  
>> cursor,  and it is of course enabled on the XO for its 200 dpi  
>> screen (the  regular 16 pixels-tall cursor is *tiny*). We already  
>> made the cursor  quite a bit smaller and pointier than Eben's Sugar  
>> default cursor. But  maybe it's still too large ...
>> Takashi, what do you think?
>
> I believe that all cursors for each software in a system should be
> same size. So I think cursor size have to be in the system global
> preference if it is necessary.


While I agree in principle, by that logic we'd have to switch to the  
Sugar cursor which is unusably bulky. Besides, we don't have the logic  
to use system cursors yet.

But we could easily make our cursor smaller. Do we want to do that?

- Bert -




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