Comment 140 for bug 459647

ATTENTION DEVELOPERS: You may be treating this as a low-priority item simply because you believe it to be cosmetic in nature. However, you need to be treating this as an accessibility issue and giving it a little more attention than it has gotten over the past several years that this defect has stagnated and continually resurfaced. Users with impaired vision absolutely depend on the ability to increase the mouse pointer size (especially on today's high resolution displays). While some of the workarounds above allow a different cursor theme to be installed, none of them solve the related problem in which the mouse pointer cannot be resized when Compiz is enabled (even with the default DMZ White theme).

Please focus on fixing the basics (and ensuring they remain stable from release to release) before wasting time on things like Unity and other relatively pointless endeavors like overlay scroll-bars.