On 1 Nov 2007, at 12:32, Kirk Bridger wrote: > My thoughts are does it matter what widget I'm interacting with > when I see a cursor? If I see a text-related cursor, it should > either blink or not. The mouse cursor here doesn't count obviously > - is there another name for it than cursor to distinguish between > the text and mouse cursor?
I've always preferred to call the mouse cursor the "mouse pointer" to avoid this sort of confusion, even though it doesn't always look like a pointer. But I guess we have to go with what the GDSG says here (or change it in all our docs...) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
