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[Walter Wittel <wittelw@xxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW I had an immediate dislike for unclutter and simply uninstalled it. I
hope it ends up an opt-in rather than default.

Had it only hidden the cursor when it was annoying (such as when it was
obscuring typing in an edit control) I likely would not have even noticed it
and felt better about the usability of the system. I understand doing that
right would be MUCH more difficult.

A netbook UI (with physical keyboard and mouse) is not a smartphone / tablet
with touch. Maybe OSs that wants to run on both need a large switch to
change modes (with a nice kerchunk sound :)

2010/7/2 Kristoffer Lundén <kristoffer.lunden@xxxxxxxxx>

> 2010/7/2 Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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.
>>
>>
> On a side note, I think that a good screenshot tool should, just like it
> should just capture both screen and window and offer the choice after, offer
> the choice to show hide the mouse pointer after the fact. If this is done by
> saving the position and what pointer is active, or if the tool should take
> multiple captures I don't know. But I have both use cases, and it would be
> nice if that was a small checkbox before save. If unclutter was to be
> active, I would expect the tool to be able to show a pointer anyway.
>
> I've been using unclutter for a while now, and I like it more than not, but
> it's not a make-or-break feature by any means.
>
> /K
>
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