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this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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This has been the case for years at this point
The gap between “nothing has been done for this task” and “multiple developers have written, reviewed, and discussed patches for this” is immense and positive.
These discussions took place several years ago if I remember correctly. The problem seems to be that cursor seems to want to refresh at a different rate than the content in screen and the people at gnome want the cursor to not feel choppy by being refreshed at the vrr determined refresh rate
The MR has multiple commits about 4 months old. It’s a bummer it’s moving slow but I believe it will land someday. I hope at least.
There appears to be at least an aspirational goal for GNOME 46 to land experimental support.
I am also sure that it will land as well. As a gnome user I hope it lands sooner than later. I am just frustrated because the pursuit of perfection is keeping us from having a better experience now. It's the calculator on iPad situation. Just because the perfect solution has not been found yet does not mean there should be no implemented solution at all.