Should touch events update the cursor position?

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 15:02:07 UTC 2014


On Thursday 16 October 2014, Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I find it distracting to have the highly-visible cursor follow my finger
> all the time.
> 
> What Windows 8 does - and I have to admit, that thing might suck on a
> Desktop but the touch hybrid stuff is quite well thought out - it hides
> the mouse cursor when touch interaction happens and shows a subtle glow
> where your finger tapped (or a subtle line when you're doing drag and
> gesture stuff) and brings the cursor back as soon as you touch the mouse
> again.

yeah, temporarly diding the mouse cursor until the mouse is moved would be the 
best way, if technically possible


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Marco Martin


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