microsoft / microsoft/PowerToys
Request for a mouse UI customization feature
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Product-Mouse Utilities
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- C
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Description
### Description of the new feature / enhancement
The feature would enable users to change the look of their mouse cursor on the screen without downloading third-party apps
### Scenario when this would be used?
On the desktop screen
### Supporting information
_No response_
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Research direction
The issue does not identify a PowerToys utility, file, entry point, or test. First determine the intended Windows cursor customization scope and where desktop customization belongs in the project. Done should include an agreed design, implementation location, and verification that users can change the cursor appearance without third-party software.
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Assessment
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100