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[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually a lot of things get pushed to the alpha and beta releases that
get pulled before release. So it might not be default anyway.
Development releases are for testing after all.

--fagan

On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 23:31 -0500, cmaglothin wrote:
> 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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