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Thanks for the reply, Sebastian.<br>
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That is good information to know. The Zoom effect indeed is very
nice. As a blind user, I am really looking forward to seeing what
the future holds for accessibility in Linux desktops. I am simply
astounded at how far accessibility has come since I started using
Linux in 2006.<br>
<br>
Thanks for all of the hard work. It really is appreciated!<br>
<br>
Take care.<br>
<br>
On 11/29/2011 09:23 PM, Sebastian Sauer wrote:
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<span style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">Jeremy
Whiting wrote:</span>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">> On Wed,
Nov 16, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Robert Cole <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:rkcole72984@gmail.com"><rkcole72984@gmail.com></a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">> wrote:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">>>
Hello, everyone.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">>> I
am testing out openSUSE 12.1 in a virtual machine using
VirtualBox</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">>>
today. I decided to test out the Zoom effect of KWin to see
how it</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">>>
worked, as it is quite jumpy on my primary Linux Mint 11
machine. I was</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">>>
amazed at how smooth the screen panned around while it was
zoomed, and</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">>>
this being in a virtual machine! My main reason for writing
this message,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">>>
however, is that I found that the mouse pointer does not scale
(at least</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">>> in
the virtual machine) when zoomed in.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">>
Interesting. I haven't played with the kwin zoom effect til
today.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">> It's
quite nice indeed.<br>
</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br>
<span style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">Thanks :-)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;"><br>
> I tried on my real machine, and the cursor</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">> did
scale, but I noticed it changed style.<br>
</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;"><br>
</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">The reason
for this is that it's not the real mouse-pointer that is
displayed. What we do is to hide the real mouse-pointer and
then draw our own which is 1) optionally proper scaled to
match the zoom-level and, even more important, 2) the position
is adjusted to match to what is displayed at the screen. What
is displayed at the screen is more or less a fake and not what
X.org sees. So, the real mouse-position, which is controlled
by X.org, would be displayed at a position that does not match
to what is displayed. That is why we need to hide + draw our
own and for that we are loading the cursor-theme. When that
does not match to what was displayed before then no
cursor-theme was set in which case we would need to fallback
to the X.org default what we atm don't do.<br>
</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br>
<span style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span
style="font-family: 'Monospace'; font-size: 9pt;">So much for
the background :-)</span></p>
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