https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515896
--- Comment #2 from Konstantin Kharlamov <[email protected]> --- Thank you for reply! Sorry for delay, I had to do a little research. I am not a designer, so to answer your question I went to look at existing solutions. I came to conclusion the question consists of 2 unrelated important parts: # 1. How to represent it: One way is create concentric ripples going from a cursor every few seconds and vanishing over certain diameter. Another idea is to create tail, vanishing after certain time (not distance in this case). I'd personally go with tail, because in theory it can optionally be made more eye-candy, like burning effects and whatnot (but I'm fine with either decision). # 2. How to activate it: This is much more difficult question IMO. An obvious answer "use shortcut", but this would imply it will only be used by people who explicitly search for such feature. I wouldn't be surprised if there already are KWin plugins that implement something similar, but I never searched for that because… well the feature is not something I *really* need. It's rather "nice to have". Which is exactly why I choose the "enlarge cursor" effect as the target — because discovering the effect is easy: it's on by default and it is hard to miss because people often wave their cursor around while thinking. So they just know it is there and can be used. To this "discoverability" problem I only see 2 solutions: either popping up some kind of "tools panel" during screencasting, which will be seen by the presenter, so they could click around on it and see what's there — or the "wave the cursor" effect. ------- To be fair, during screencasting we already pop up in the tray a red dot meaning that the screen is being recorded. I guess another icon could be added to it for effect activation, with a hovering hint à la "Hold Ctrl+Alt to temporarily activate the effect". -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
