The mouse pointer is not color managed. Even in Windows 8.1. Who thought this was a good idea? [EOM]

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June 23rd, 2015 12:45am

Hello,

No, this is NOT the issue and this is NOT the solution. This does NOT solve the issue of the ICC color profile not applied to the pointer although it should be applied to it.

This might be a half-decent workaround in a static viewing environment like a color proofing booth when doing print work, but even there it would require you to design your own custom pointers for the entire viewing environment.

It's not a solution when working with multiple viewing environments on the same machine (e.g. when you carry a laptop and have various profiles configured for your working environments, at home, at work, in a co-working space, etc.), you'd have to design hundreds of pointers.

And then it's even worse if you are suffering from any of a multitude of melatonin-related sleep disorders, like delayed sleep phase disorder, Non-24h Sleep-Wake Disorder or advanced sleep phase disorder and use software like e.g. f.lux that shifts the color temperature of the configured ICC profile dynamically every second as part of your treatment. One would have to programmatically design thousands of pointers and then write an application shift those every second. NOT a workable solution for anyone.



  • Edited by AeronSophus Wednesday, July 01, 2015 6:55 AM
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July 1st, 2015 6:53am

As far as I know, the mouse pointer will be changed automatically in some programs especially when we played a full screen game. So this behavior may be supported by specific API and the Windows system only support the basic configurations at present.

Correct about the API for changing the mouse pointer. And having the mouse pointer color managed in those situations would indeed be a separate topic and a new feature. But for the normal mouse pointer in the windows UI: Microsoft invested CONSIDERABLE effort to have color management implemented for Windows. As such, /there/, I would not consider having the mouse pointer color managed to be a new feature - I'd consider the fact that it isn't a bug or a design oversight.

Why invest tons of effort to color manage everything in the Windows UI, but then not do that for the the mouse pointer - a major part of the UI?

Even so, I'll submit a feedback in the Windows 10 Preview on this.

July 2nd, 2015 6:36pm

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