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Summary

Adds a built-in touch cursor style to the existing cursor picker, as described in #1366: a translucent disk that contracts on press and leaves a fading trail while dragging.

  • New touch theme in the cursor style picker.
  • Translucent disk, press contraction, and drag trail, implemented in all three compositor backends.
  • Linux input now passes the button release through as a mouseup, so press and drag state can end correctly.
  • Older recordings that have no release events fall back to showing click pulses.
  • One new i18n key, added in each locale.
  • Docs and the manual e2e checklist updated for the new style.

Related issue

Fixes #1366

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • Feature
  • Enhancement
  • Documentation
  • Refactor / maintenance
  • Performance
  • Security

Release impact

  • Patch
  • Minor
  • Major / breaking change
  • No release note needed

Desktop impact

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • Installer / packaging
  • Not platform-specific

Screenshots / video

I rendered three frames through the compositor on Linux (GTX 1050 Ti via NVK, headless):

  • idle: a pale gray translucent disk with a thin dark outline
  • pressed: the disk is smaller and brighter
  • drag: the disk with a fading trail behind it

I can't attach the PNGs from the CLI. I can add them to this PR if you'd like to see them.

Testing

Rebased onto main at d12d0071, one commit. Run on Linux:

  • npx tsc --noEmit and npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit: both pass
  • npm run lint: 0 errors, 25 warnings (the same 25 as on main)
  • npm run test: 369 files, 5101 passed, 1 skipped
  • npm run i18n:check: passes
  • cargo test -p openscreen-compositor -- --test-threads=1: the touch tests pass. 3 tests fail here, and they fail the same way on main with a wgpu "snatch lock" panic: the_crystal_refracts_the_blurred_picture, the_rimmed_models_keep_the_outline_of_their_art, the_sculpted_cursors_stand_at_the_hotspot
  • npm run build:native:compositor:linux: the Linux addon builds

Not verified:

  • no real touchscreen or Wayland input
  • no Electron preview check
  • no export
  • no Windows or macOS build or run (the D3D11 and Metal paths are only covered by CI)
  • none of the native manual e2e checklist items have been run

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a Touch cursor style with a centered, translucent disk for all cursor shapes. The disk contracts and darkens while pressed, returns to its idle appearance on release, and leaves a fading trail during movement.
    • Touch cursor settings are available in the style picker and localized in supported languages. The style remains flat even when 3D cursors are enabled.
    • Cursor recordings can capture left-button releases as well as presses, enabling held-press effects and trails. Active Touch presses also prevent the cursor from auto-hiding.
  • Documentation

    • Updated cursor-style and bundled artwork documentation, including notes on Wayland recording limitations.

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Walkthrough

Adds a Touch cursor theme with press and drag visuals. Left-button capture records press and release events. Cursor planning creates fading drag-trail samples, which Linux, macOS, and Windows compositors render.

Changes: Touch cursor

Layer / File(s) Summary
Theme, asset, and editor controls
src/lib/cursor/cursorThemes.ts, src/lib/cursor/cursorThemes.test.ts, src/components/ai-edition/RightPanes.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/CursorPane*.test.tsx, src/i18n/locales/*/settings.json, src/native/sceneDescription.test.ts, scripts/generate-touch-cursor.mjs, technical-documentation/architecture/cursor.md
Adds a Touch theme that resolves every cursor state to a centered disk. The editor displays a localized theme name and disables recorded cursor-type controls and the 3D toggle for this theme.
Button-edge capture and press tracking
electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/{input.rs,main.rs,events.rs}, electron/native-bridge/cursor/recording/pipeWireCursorAccumulator*, electron/native-bridge/cursor/recording/pipeWireCursorRecordingSession.ts, crates/compositor/src/cursor.rs
PipeWire capture forwards timestamped left-button press and release edges as click and mouseup. CursorTrack records press transitions, exposes visibility-aware press state, and synthesizes releases for click-only recordings.
Touch cursor and trail planning
crates/compositor/src/frame_geometry.rs, technical-documentation/architecture/cursor.md, technical-documentation/testing/manual-e2e-checklist.md
CursorPlan uses the live position for Touch, applies pressed and idle opacity and size behavior, and plans fading trail stamps while a visible press moves.
Cross-platform trail rendering
crates/compositor/src/compositor_{linux,macos,windows}.rs
The Linux, macOS, and Windows compositor paths draw the planned trail stamps using the selected cursor theme and clip.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PipeWireCapture
  participant CursorTrack
  participant CursorPlan
  participant LinuxCompositor
  participant MacOSCompositor
  participant WindowsCompositor
  PipeWireCapture->>CursorTrack: provide timestamped click and mouseup samples
  CursorTrack->>CursorPlan: provide position, visibility, and press state
  CursorPlan->>LinuxCompositor: provide touch trail stamps
  CursorPlan->>MacOSCompositor: provide touch trail stamps
  CursorPlan->>WindowsCompositor: provide touch trail stamps
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The changes add per-device button tracking and release handling on device loss. No concrete merge-blocking issue is established by the available evidence; normal validation remains necessary.

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Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

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Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 62.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding a touchscreen cursor style.
Description check Passed The description follows the required template and covers the summary, related issue, change type, release impact, platform impact, visual behavior, testing results, and unverified areas.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #1366 requests a translucent circle or disk with visual indication of clicks and drags. The PR adds the Touch theme and picker integration. The compositor backends render the disk, press state, …
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within issue #1366. Input release tracking, per-device hold tracking, and device-loss release handling support the Touch press and drag behavior. Localization, documentation, asset ge…
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Explanation

Issue #1366 requests a translucent circle or disk with visual indication of clicks and drags. The PR adds the Touch theme and picker integration. The compositor backends render the disk, press state, and fading drag trail. Cursor tracking handles press and release state, including older click-only recordings. Tests cover theme resolution, picker behavior, cursor geometry, trail behavior, and input release handling.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes stay within issue #1366. Input release tracking, per-device hold tracking, and device-loss release handling support the Touch press and drag behavior. Localization, documentation, asset generation, UI tests, and native tests support the new cursor style. No unrelated implementation is demonstrated.

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Thanks a lot for this, and for the clear write-up of what was and wasn't verified!

Since the touch style ships on all three compositor back-ends, we validate cursor features with a short end-to-end video per platform (a real take, then the exported MP4). Could you add the three rendered frames you mentioned, plus a short Linux video showing the touch cursor in the editor preview and in an export, including a click and a drag? We'll take care of checking macOS and Windows on our side.

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src/lib/cursor/cursorThemes.test.ts: 1

233-236: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Poor tradeoff

Add a pixel check for the Touch disk asset.

The touch theme test at src/lib/cursor/cursorThemes.test.ts:233-236 checks only the PNG signature and the 128×128 dimensions. A blank or different PNG with the same header passes. No other test or asset check in the repository reads the pixels, so a future replacement of public/cursors/touch/disk.png would not fail CI. The test name, "draws the same centered disk", describes a check that the assertions do not make.

The committed asset is valid, so this is a coverage gap. It is not a current rendering defect. A center-pixel alpha check would confirm only that the disk is present. It would not validate the full artwork.

Notes on the remedy
  • Decode and assert center alpha. The generator fills a circle centered at (64, 64) with rgba(255,255,255,0.6), so the center pixel is opaque enough to test. The repository has no PNG decoder. Adding one means either a new devDependency or a short node:zlib inflate and scanline-unfilter routine. Effort is moderate.
  • Compare a digest. Hashing the committed file needs no decoder, so effort is low. Any re-encode or regeneration then requires updating the expected value.

No diff is proposed. The digest value was not computed, and no decoder is declared in this repository.

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Review comment at @src/lib/cursor/cursorThemes.test.ts around lines 233 - 236:
Strengthen the “draws the same centered disk” test in cursorThemes.test.ts to
validate the Touch disk artwork, not only its PNG signature and dimensions.
Assert a stable digest of the committed asset so artwork changes fail the test;
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/input.rs:
- Around line 171-174: Track whether the left button is held in the
pointer-reader loop around `left_button_state`. If `device.fetch_events()`
returns a non-interrupted error while held, send a release
`Message::PointerButton` before reporting `PointerDeviceLost`; update the held
state for each button event and leave interrupted reads unchanged.

Review comments at @electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/main.rs:
- Line 231: Track left-button state separately for each pointer device in the
reader and recording flow, using the device identifier from PointerButton. Emit
the release edge consumed by CursorTrack::pressed_since only when no device
remains pressed, so one device’s release does not end another device’s hold.

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Review comments at @src/lib/cursor/cursorThemes.test.ts:
- Around line 233-236: Strengthen the “draws the same centered disk” test in
cursorThemes.test.ts to validate the Touch disk artwork, not only its PNG
signature and dimensions. Assert a stable digest of the committed asset so
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