To me it makes sense. If you shake, the cursor gets bigger. If you are not able to see and find it, then it makes sense to shake more until you find it. There is no harm, so its fine (but also agree on being hilarious).

[–] notprogrammer@programming.dev 9 points 7 hours ago

There doesn't appear to be a limit to the maximum size the KDE cursor can get when you shake it.

And that's a good thing!

[–] jared@mander.xyz 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I just turned it on the other day out of curiosity, now I'm jigglin' my mouse to see how big I can get it.

[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

Nah baby, I swear! You just gotta jiggle it.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Why would shaking the cursor make it bigger in the first place? Is this an accessibility feature to find the cursor?

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, and Windows and OS X both do it as well.

Though there being no upper limit to the size is amusing.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Can't tell if lazy programming or just figuring it will fix itself. In theory there would be a point of overflow maybe? Well, I guess that also fixes itself.

[–] TimeWalker@lemmy.foxden.party 7 points 9 hours ago

It's by design as mentioned in this bug report.

There is a hidden config to cap the over magnification on shake

[Effect-shakecursor]
OverMagnification=0

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I assume the KDE implementation resizes to default when you stop shaking it.

I could totally see someone coding a function that increases the mouse pointer by x% every y mouse shakes, and then neglecting to put in a size cap.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I could totally see someone coding a function that increases the mouse pointer by x% every y mouse shakes, and then neglecting to put in a size cap.

This feature used to be in KDE 5 as well though, but with a size cap. I suspect the removal of the size cap is intentional rather than a bug.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 9 hours ago

Yes, it resets once motion is stopped. It's one of those things where without comments in the code or something you could also assume forgetting to check one of the bounds just happened to work fine.

[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Yes. It was enhanced and enabled by default in KDE6

[–] CosmxTi@beehaw.org 7 points 9 hours ago

Noticed this a few weeks back as my mouse was dying and needed a shake. Not sure what causes it, but I found it entertaining enough not to complain. Still enjoying it tbh