I had to ask, just out of curiosity.

Couldn't find anything in an admittedly short look at KDE help. When I did a web search, every link over a number of pages seemed to involve how turn it off.

I admit that was my first reaction ... horror. I've installed mint kde and kubuntu several times now and after the first time it's the first thing I do. It's beccome just one of a whole slew of features in kde I don't actually need.

That doesn't bug me. I like kde because it's just more polished than the other 4 linux desktop shells I've used. And it's more stable. And too many features is much better than not enough, at least when you've come to terms with all those settings.

But, I have to wonder. Surely the bouncy cursor does something useful? Even though I probably won't care enough to use it.

Hoser Rob wrote:But, I have to wonder. Surely the bouncy cursor does something useful?

Does it?

It just gives input to user: your app is starting.

I would say that giving feedback about starting applications (having clicked/double-clicked) is an important feature.

However, for some applications the bouncing goes on forever even though the application has already started.
Is that a bug - or is it possible to force the bouncing to stop after 2-3 seconds?
Cheers

This feature is known as "Launch Feedback" and is simply a way for KDE to acknowledge that the application is starting (and to please wait).
The persistence of the launch feedback cursor usually occurs when an application does not open a window, and instead minimizes straight to the system tray (or completely fails to start).

You can change the Launch Feedback cursor timeout in System Settings > Application and System Notifications > Launch Feedback, where you can change the timeouts for both the cursor and the task manager entry.

bcooksley wrote:This feature is known as "Launch Feedback" and is simply a way for KDE to acknowledge that the application is starting (and to please wait).
The persistence of the launch feedback cursor usually occurs when an application does not open a window, and instead minimizes straight to the system tray (or completely fails to start).

You can change the Launch Feedback cursor timeout in System Settings > Application and System Notifications > Launch Feedback, where you can change the timeouts for both the cursor and the task manager entry.

Thanks for the info where to change the launch feedback timeout. I couldn't find it. But that's probably because I have an old version of KDE in Debian.

I could find out when the bouncing of the launch feedback goes unnecessarily long. When I have Firefox open and start another instance of Firefox from a launcher, then a new tab in Firefox opens immediately, however the launch feedback continues for about 15-20 seconds. The same happens in Opera. So it seems to be a general issue that the system/launch feedback does not recognize when a new tab was successfully started (instead of the whole program - because the program was already open).

Yes, the launch feedback waits for a window to open or so, and if the application doesn't create a window it'll go on.

You can change the timeout in System settings » Application and System notifications » Launch Feedback.

Cheers