Comment 58 for bug 459647

Added myself to the list with this bug. While the work-arounds are nice, this isn't a LOW priority bug. Sorry Sebastian Bacher, but this isn't just a cosmetic bug...for some its damn important to be able to have the larger/different CONSISTENT cursor, and most folks couldn't do these work-arounds to save their lives.

Not only should this be a high priority for usability, cosmetically this is the sort of thing that leaves new users irritated with UI sloppiness. Several folks I've installed Ubuntu for have mentioned some of these issues, referring to the UI glitches as "win95" crap. I in all honesty cannot disagree with them.

If we want this OS to be "slicker than the MAC" as the SABDFL has so loudly shouted to the housetops, then a simple mouse cursor change which is stock rock STANDARD should just fracking work. That it requires gconf hoops as well as source rebuilds to fix is NOT FRACKIN' ACCEPTABLE.

if this were Arch....notta problem...just get the right AUR build and be done with it...but when a distro is shooting for the moon or...er...more slick than win7 or mac, then these issues aren't LOW. Period.

That an Ubuntu Dev would blow this off as low/fix whenever...chaps my hide a bit to see, as I'm not going to call my buddy in California and walk him through the work-arounds. He'll just laugh and toss Ubuntu back on the pile of "nice tries" and go back to win7 or the mac to do the things he needs to get done.

UI is SCREAMINGLY important, as the general non-geek public that tries this is the target audience, and if the UI is garbled for the simplest changes, the confidence in stability and usability goes out the damn window.

My 2 cents.