Comment 48 for bug 16492

I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 28 Apr 2011, at 22:09, David Balažic <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Situation same in Ubuntu 11.04...
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16492
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> Title:
>  Mouse pointer should disappear when keyboard is in use and mouse
> isn't
>
> Status in GTK+ GUI Toolkit:
>  New
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Triaged
> Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
> Status in “gtk+2.0” source package in Maverick:
>  Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>  Steps to reproduce:
>  1.  Click near the top left of a text field to focus it.
>  2.  Start typing.
>  Or:
>  1.  Click in a browser window to focus the page.
>  2.  Read the page, scrolling with the arrow keys.
>  Or:
>  1.  Click in an e-mail message window to focus the message.
>  2.  Read the message, scrolling with the arrow keys.
>
>  What happens:
>  *   The mouse pointer gets in the way of what you're typing/reading.
>
>  What should happen:
>  *   Whenever you press a non-modifier key on the keyboard, if the
> pointing
>  device has been neither moved nor clicked in the past ~0.25
> seconds, the pointer
>  should disappear until the pointing device is next moved or clicked.
>
>  But won't this make people lose the pointer?
>  *   No. For human eyes, such a small object is much easier to find
> by movement
>  than by searching the entire screen. As soon as they grab the mouse
> again, the
>  pointer will appear, and they'll see where it is.
>
>  This is nuts!
>  *   It's worked on the Mac for over two decades. Most people
> haven't noticed.
>  They just get slightly irritated on *other* platforms when the
> pointer gets in
>  the way.
>
>  (Apologies if this is filed under the wrong product.)
>
>  http://www.quinn.echidna.id.au/Quinn/WWW/HISubtleties/PointerObscuring.html
> :
>  http://www.quinn.echidna.id.au/Quinn/WWW/HISubtleties/PointerObscuring.html