{"id":33,"date":"2010-01-13T00:10:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T08:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2010-01-13T00:10:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T08:10:54","slug":"pointer-icon-usability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/pointer-icon-usability\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointer icon usability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where do you think the hotspot for this mouse pointer icon is?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32\" title=\"cursor\" src=\"http:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cursor.PNG\" alt=\"cursor\" width=\"51\" height=\"55\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is it under one of the points, or maybe in the center of the icon? Nope, it&#8217;s in the top left corner. Let me repeat that. The hotspot is the transparent top left corner of the imaginary box that surrounds the pointer icon. It&#8217;s a usability nightmare because you have to estimate where you&#8217;re going to click.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t recognize this pointer icon, then consider yourself lucky. I see it a couple times a day. Randomly. When my Windows machine decides that the icon needs to be switched. For no reason that I&#8217;ve been able to determine. The mouse can be completely still and something will trigger the icon to change. I don&#8217;t even know what this icon is supposed to indicate.<\/p>\n<p>I keep the mouse control panel open so I can select a cursor theme, which restores the correct cursor.<\/p>\n<p>Deactivating the nvidia drivers made this problem go away. But not having the nvidia drivers means that I have to restart every time I undock my computer because the screen setup changes and Windows doesn&#8217;t detect it. I&#8217;m still deciding whether I want to live with a simple annoyance a couple times a day, or a big pain maybe once a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do you think the hotspot for this mouse pointer icon is? Is it under one of the points, or maybe in the center of the icon? Nope, it&#8217;s in the top left corner. Let me repeat that. The hotspot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/pointer-icon-usability\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squizion.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}