https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489979
Bug ID: 489979
Summary: Move and grabbing cursors are identical in Breeze
Classification: Plasma
Product: Breeze
Version: unspecified
Platform: Arch Linux
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: minor
Priority: NOR
Component: Icons
Assignee: visual-des...@kde.org
Reporter: bojidar.marinov...@gmail.com
CC: kain...@gmail.com, m...@nueljl.in
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Something that's been jarring me a bit with the Breeze (dark) cursor is that
both the move and grabbing cursors are the exact same image (a closed hand, aka
dnd-move), which is closer to grab (open hand) than to copy (arrow with a small
+ in the corner, aka dnd-copy); however, move and grabbing mean different
things—move is used when a drag-and-drop operation will result in moving a
file/object/etc. to a new location, while grabbing is used when an user is in
the process of dragging/repositioning an object around the screen—as explained
in
https://hoyon.github.io/wayland-protocol-docs/protocols/cursor_shape_v1.html#enum:wp_cursor_shape_device_v1:shape
and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor#keyword
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open a folder in Dolphin, and drag a file around.
2. Press shift while dragging and move the mouse a bit more—make note of the
cursor shape, that's the "move" cursor
3. Leave the file, and drag the window around instead—make note of the cursor
shape, that's the "grabbing" cursor now
OBSERVED RESULT
Both move and grabbing use the same image.
EXPECTED RESULT
The two cursors are distinct, as the two interactions (moving an object to a
new place and repositioning/grabbing an object) are distinct.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux: Arch Linux, recently updated; using Wayland
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Asking for the correct cursor shapes seem to be something that nobody does
perfect. LibreOffice manage to use the size-all cursor for moving things.
Draw.io uses the move cursor for that. Chromium translates move to size-all.
Firefox translates all-scroll to move/grabbing (and has a 20-year-old bug for
it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275174). Apparently, Windows
does not differentiate between the two cursors. Hence, I'm filing this a minor
bug: it would be nice if things were better, but plenty of other apps will mess
it up anyway. ':)
As a minor note, the dnd-no-drop and no-drop cursors are different though they
(probably?) refer to the same action—not sure if that's intentional.
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