Comment 3 for bug 1459996

Just to note that this is still a pertinent issue and one that quite severely affects the usability and perceived quality/seriousness of Raspian/Pi/Linux.

This is a fundamental user-interface issue that makes it particularly difficult for people (especially school children) to use pi for anything serious because you have to "guess" where the pointer is when it's not a regular arrow.

Applications that are particularly unusable because of this bug include GIMP and other drawing programs.