[ubuntu-art] Updated Cursor

[Michiel Sikma]

Viper550 wrote:
> Here's an updated version of my new experimental cursor design for 
> Ubuntu...
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> Viper550
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That actually looks better than the one before, but I still have a 
rather fundamental problem with it.

For one, and this has nothing to do with your cursor design, but what is 
exactly the reason why we're making new cursors? At the risk of sounding 
closed-minded, I feel as though the cursors we have are great, or 
definitely good enough to fulfill their purpose. What else is there to 
do with the cursors that wouldn't just make them look different for the 
sake of being different (and possibly stray from the design of a cursor 
that people expect a cursor to look like)? I guess that maybe you could 
ask for a new waiting cursor, but that's really it. Perhaps someone 
could clarify what sort of changes there are in mind.

As for your design, I feel that even though it looks good, it doesn't 
really look like a "proper" cursor. It looks a little too tilted and the 
stem is too short. I think that whatever cursor set there should be in 
Ubuntu should look typical, since people don't really need to see 
anything fancy and unconventional as cursor. I also would try to see if 
it's possible to fix that edge at the left side, since the lack of a 
good border like there is on the right side makes it look thin. Perhaps 
you could also end the stem not with a fully horizontal cut but with a 
slightly tilted cut, since your cursor appears tilted.

Michiel