I find this hilarious. Is this an easter egg? When shaking my mouse cursor, I can get it to take up the whole screens height.

This is KDE Plasma 6.

  • JackGreenEarthEnglish
    13•23 hours ago

    Why would shaking the cursor make it bigger in the first place? Is this an accessibility feature to find the cursor?

    • @[email protected]English
      15•23 hours ago

      Yeah, and Windows and OS X both do it as well.

      Though there being no upper limit to the size is amusing.

      • Rhaedas
        5•22 hours ago

        Can’t tell if lazy programming or just figuring it will fix itself. In theory there would be a point of overflow maybe? Well, I guess that also fixes itself.

        • @[email protected]English
          4•22 hours ago

          I assume the KDE implementation resizes to default when you stop shaking it.

          I could totally see someone coding a function that increases the mouse pointer by x% every y mouse shakes, and then neglecting to put in a size cap.

          • @[email protected]OPEnglish
            3•22 hours ago

            I could totally see someone coding a function that increases the mouse pointer by x% every y mouse shakes, and then neglecting to put in a size cap.

            This feature used to be in KDE 5 as well though, but with a size cap. I suspect the removal of the size cap is intentional rather than a bug.

          • Rhaedas
            1•22 hours ago

            Yes, it resets once motion is stopped. It’s one of those things where without comments in the code or something you could also assume forgetting to check one of the bounds just happened to work fine.