I like the design of Plasma 5, however...

Please, change the select text cursor from the current 3px wide cursor to more "sharp" 1px wide cursor like that one in Windows.

The current one is unusable for me, because I get so frustrated after so many misselections during my work day, that I switch to Windows in the end, where selecting a text is so much less struggle because the cursor is 1px wide.

Let's try to select the middle character in strings like "lll" (especially on narrow fonts smaller than 9px) in Windows and than in Kubuntu or other distro with KDE 5.4+ DE. I guarantee you that you will find out that the 1 px wide select cursor is the superior.

Here is a Windows 7 1px wide select text cursor screenshot from the classic dark text on light background situation:



And here is the inverted color scheme with light text and dark background:


And here is a mix that is very unusual, but can happen:


Notice how the part of the character that overlay with the select cursor changes the color to a different color.

I like Plasma 5 and where it's heading but please consider this small adjustment to the select text cursor in the next version of Plasma DE.

Before I decided to post this question here, I posted this question here:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/235759/is-there-any-reason-to-not-use-similar-cursors-to-windows-by-linux-distributions

But then I decided to address this question as a request to do something about it, if it's not a problem or legal issues of some sort, on the forum of my most liked desktop environment on Linux... KDE Plasma

I dream about this on LInux:


UPDATE: Chromium OS does come with 1px wide I-beam cursor, eventhough I don't know if it can "magically" change color on dark background like the cursor in Windows. It probably use the 1px solid black for all I beam shape and 1px solid white on the right side so it's 2px wide instead of 3px, which is better, but still not the great 1px of Windows.