https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488841
Bug ID: 488841
Summary: Shake Cursor Effect is Too Hidden
Classification: Plasma
Product: kwin
Version: 6.1.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: effects-various
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: eamonn...@protonmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
I understand Plasma 6.1.0 has enabled the "Shake Cursor" effect by default, I
am not here to voice my disagreement with that :-) However in Plasma 6.0 when I
tried it out it was available in the general list of Desktop Effects. In Plasma
6.1 it was enabled and I tried to disable it. It took me a while to figure out
this option was considered an "Internal Effect" and hidden under the filter,
which excluded these effects by default.
I don't think "Shake Cursor" should be considered Internal in this way, it is
new functionality on by default that is easy to activate with the shaking of a
cursor (often accidentally), so a way to more easily disable it would be
useful.
KDE Plasma is not macOS and rightly so, however it is the only comparison I
have, and I believe you can turn off this cursor effect for macOS more easily
under the mouse settings. Whether this setting could be moved to have more
visibility there is perhaps an alternative approach.
Even if this feature were not enabled by default, keeping it under "Internal"
effects would make it difficult for users who want to configure it. Further
still, if a user disables it but later wants to enable it (say months later),
the filter option for Desktop Effects is not preserved, so the effect becomes
hidden again by default.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Desktop Effects
2. "Shake Cursor" effect is hidden by default
3. Disable the "Exclude internal effects" option
4. Shake Cursor appears, but is not shown by default like it was in Plasma
6.0.5
OBSERVED RESULT
"Shake Cursor" effect is too hidden under "Internal effects" and not shown by
default.
EXPECTED RESULT
"Shake Cursor" should be visible as it is an easily-activatable effect newly
enabled by default that users may want to disable.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 6.9.5 Linux Zen
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.1
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