The new cursor in 10.7.3

[Prodo123]

Put your mouse over the MacRumors logo, and look at your icon.
If you're on OS X 10.7.3, your hand should have a slanted index finger as opposed to the previous straight finger.

What are your opinions on this new "slanted finger" cursor?

(personally that slanted finger makes me think that the finger is broken)

 

[iMac-do you?]

The slanted finger is following human anatomy I think. Extend your index finger on your right hand, and curl up your other fingers, as per the cursor. Your index finger does slant to the left a little (or mine does at least!).

 

[Jolly Jimmy]

As if there weren't more important things that need doing in Lion...

 

[Prodo123]

The slanted finger is following human anatomy I think. Extend your index finger on your right hand, and curl up your other fingers, as per the cursor. Your index finger does slant to the left a little (or mine does at least!).

Then I must be an anomaly...

 

[Krazy Bill]

As if there weren't more important things that need doing in Lion...

Exactly. Of all the crap to mull over about Lion...

Honestly, I hadn't noticed until this cursor thing got front page exposure somewhere. Amazingly, I haven't slept any better or worse since its discovery.

 

[iMac-do you?]

Then I must be an anomaly...

You're pointing it wrong.

 

[tkermit]

Then I must be an anomaly...

Nice hand - Apple might have a job for you.

Which one of these hand positions looks more natural though, i.e. for which one do you think the user would have felt most comfortable?

Not that any of this really matters...

 

[bdodds1985]

 

[Prodo123]

Nice hand - Apple might have a job for you.

Which one of these hand positions looks more natural though, i.e. for which one do you think the user would have felt most comfortable?

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Not that any of this really matters...

The one to the right.
It would be quite painful to touch the iPad's screen with the side of your finger all the time...

 

[ixodes]

WoooHooo... Brilliant Engineering Breakthrough

 

[Arkious]

well they had to put our $29.99 or £21.99 to use on somthing!

and for the record, i never even noticed xD

 

[codercotton]

Steve would have never allowed this ugly ass broken finger cursor. It begins...

 

[srf4real]

My main concern has always been, how do left handed people cope with the hand cursor at all?

 

[thejadedmonkey]

I think the bigger issue is how this shows how rushed Lion was. You don't go about changing little things like this in point releases of an OS, these are things that should be decided upon when you decide on the feature set.

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My main concern has always been, how do left handed people cope with the hand cursor at all?

Try using stacks on the dock, with your left hand. It goes the opposite direction of the natural arc that your hand makes. I filed a bug report on it in Leopard, and closed it as "by design".

 

[tkermit]

It begins...

I think it's great that they're looking at BeOS for inspiration. Maybe the file system is next.... (edit come to think of it, they've already copied the important bits

 

[David085]

I haven't noticed until I see this post about it to me is this a cursor doesn't really matter to me it doesn't look too different from the previous one

 

[1woman]

Mouse Cursor 10.7.3

Help! What about left-handed folks like me? How to turn the cursor to the right would be helpful information.

 

[fisherking]

am left-handed, but...stopped thinking about that a long time ago.

who cares about the slight changes in the cursor? am busy looking at what the cursor is POINTED AT...