[Bug 294654] New: Hide mouse cursor when you don't need it, to prevent it from getting in the way !

[Andrei ILIE]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294654

           Summary: Hide mouse cursor when you don't need it, to prevent
                    it from getting in the way !
           Product: kde
           Version: 4.6
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: andrei.ilie at ymail.com


Version:           4.6 (using KDE 4.6.5) 
OS:                Linux

I reported this to "general", maybe it's a KWIN thing, I don't now...

  Please give the user an option to hide the mouse cursor when it's not needed,
to prevent it from getting in the way when making simple activities like
watching videos, reading, developing software, etc.

  There's already an X app that does exactly that,
http://linuxappfinder.com/package/unclutter, but come on, I already have KDE
installed ! Don't want another app for this simple feature.

  So, I propose the following implementation: in "System Settings / Mouse /
Advanced" would be very useful to have something like "Hide mouse cursor if
idle for more than N seconds". You, then, only have to move / click the mouse
to make it visible again.

  As a sane default, not to scare KDE's conservative users, the default value
of N could be "unlimited" for never to hide the mouse cursor.

The feature request presented above has a GLOBAL KDE SCOPE (it covers all apps
opened while logged in KDE). As a result, fixing this, would also fix the
following narrower scoped reports:
  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128026
  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251905
  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128501


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Details on how to reproduce the problem were not provided.


Expected Results:  
Expected results were not provided.

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