Re: [Usability] Mousetweaks usability discussion

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 1 Nov 2007, at 12:32, Kirk Bridger wrote:

> My thoughts are does it matter what widget I'm interacting with  
> when I see a cursor?  If I see a text-related cursor, it should  
> either blink or not.  The mouse cursor here doesn't count obviously  
> - is there another name for it than cursor to distinguish between  
> the text and mouse cursor?

I've always preferred to call the mouse cursor the "mouse pointer" to  
avoid this sort of confusion, even though it doesn't always look like  
a pointer.  But I guess we have to go with what the GDSG says here  
(or change it in all our docs...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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