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I know its default because I'm using maverick and it installed by itself. It
was in an update a few days ago.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> hi there ;)
>
> On 2010-07-02, Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I would add that my first annoyance with this behavior is that I often
> use
> > the mouse pointer to "point out" something in a screenshot. Now I must
> stay
> > physically active to do so rather than just setting the screenshot delay
> > time properly, positioning the pointer, and waiting.
> >
> > It just seems like more work to me :^)
> >
> > What exactly are the benefits?
> >
> > --- On Thu, 7/1/10, David Callé <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: David Callé <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [Ayatana] Some thoughts about unclutter
> > To: "ayatana" <ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 5:26 PM
> >
> > As a non native english speaker, this mail won't be long. I will just
> > share some assertions that I believe being true for a vast majority of
> > users.
> >
> > 1) When I see my mouse cursor on my desktop, it means my computer is
> > ready for action.
> >
> > 2) When the mouse cursor is acting strange (like disappearing or slowly
> > moving), it means that there is something wrong with my computer.
> >
> > 3) My mouse cursor is my virtual hand. When I don't use my real hands, I
> > move them away and I wouldn't want them to "disappear" whenever I don't
> > use them.
> >
> > 4) Interacting with my computer include relying on several states of my
> > mouse cursor (busy, active, ready to grab or to interact). Make it
> > disappear and I have lost an indicator of an essential state of my
> > computer : its ability or not, to do things.
> >
> > 5) When I don't see my cursor before moving it, it's like not seeing my
> > taskbar and having to alt-tab.
> >
> > And the last two, maybe the most important ones :
> >
> > 6) When I see my mouse cursor, I instinctively know the amount of
> > movement my hand or finger will need to take it to another place of the
> > screen.
> >
> > 7) It's easier to define the future trajectory of an immobile object,
> > than having to catch a moving object with my eye first, then redefining
> > it's trajectory.
> >
> > That's why I think having unclutter by default is not such a good idea
> > (even if the omnipresence of the mouse cursor is a challenging usability
> > and design problem). We should try to think about redesigning it (the
> > hard way), before deciding to give it an invisible state when idle (the
> > easy way).
> >
> > Thanks for reading!
> > Davidc
> >
> >
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> who said unclutter will be default?
>
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