i know you love the teardrop cursor but
if you sitting on a sofa and looking at a tv trying to close the little red x
is quite hard ....try it

http://www.watchtelevision.eu/rightnow/uk1.php

so maybe a bog standard ARROW .....

The location of the cursor’s ‘hot spot’ is not particularly clear, and the cursor mode doesn’t change when placed over a link or over a text field. I too feel this is a weakness.

But…

The system cursor is usually too small to easily see on a large screen, and doesn’t otherwise aesthetically suit a leanback experience. This is why I suggested a compromise for the Kylo cursor so at least in ‘pointer mode’ the pointed segment of the border change color when over a link. Most controls invoke the same cursor response as a link, so it should fix that issue too. The only thing left after that would be to have a text input mode (usually an I-beam cursor in a regular system). Since Kylo isn’t primarily built around a lot of form filling, I figured asking for the modal pointer cursor first was a good idea.

yes that is a very good idea ,as some of the boxes you have to close are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO small that even with a normal cursor it wont help to hit the target

so im now 100 pc behind euchres idea of colour change when you are ´´hot´´ (red)

The original intention was to have the top left corner of the cursor light up on clickable links. This is a common design we use at Hillcrest Labs for our UIs - the cursor for the Kodak Theatre HD Player is an example.

The reason the hover state never made it in is due to the way we ultimately had to implement it. Not to make excuses, but we had decided to avoid compiling a custom XULRunner for Kylo to avoid the logistics of hosting the code. I’m just started looking in to biting the bullet on this one this past Tuesday. And actually, if this works for all cases (may have some trouble with the cursor over flash/quicktime/wmp/etc. content), then it would actually be easier to provide a custom cursor for the text entry case as well. I’ll keep you posted.

Meanwhile… if either of you have any programming experience or know of anyone that might like to help out, the Kylo source is available on github and I could use the help

its def worth doing ......

http://www.tvdez.com/embed.php?c=fox

some of the boxes are sooooo small

this is now less important as most of the problems were with pop ups and now we have AD BLOCK we have lot less pop ups