Low map contrast affects cursors

Good day Quax64,

I do not think that this may be considered as an issue. Main purpose of these color modes is to decrease contrast of a map and items that are very "close" to map. In this case, we decided to consider cursors as a part of a map as well. Result is what you see - center and moving cursors are also influenced by inverse (night mode) and low or high contrast settings.

So I believe that this is more on users preferences/tastes, that on some universal correct solution. I do not know what is most preferred solution for now and because you are the first one who wrote about it after few years (till this settings exists in Locus), I consider this as correct behavior.

Hi Menion,

I cannot really see how the moving cursor or the GPS cursor is any "closer to the map" than a track, but I agree that it is not a bug or issue but rather a matter of personal preference. However, if I want to have darker cursors (low contrast), I can always install an according icon set, but I cannot go the other way around - in anticipation of the "low contrast" feature have over-bright cursor icons.

That nobody brought this up yet could just indicate that the "low contrast" feature is not used that often and the effect on the cursor is not that pronounced anyway.

1. I cannot really see how the moving cursor or the GPS cursor is any "closer to the map" than a track, ..

Hmm neither me when I think about it more :). It all started a long time ago, when only "inverse mode" existed. Then inversion of cursors made a sense, to keep their visibility as high, as possible. And because low/high contrast options use exactly same mechanism, these features are applied on cursors as well.

1. That nobody brought this up yet could just indicate that the "low

   contrast" feature is not used that often and the effect on the cursor is

   not that pronounced anyway.

This is of course correct. And also because of this, importance of this "issue" is even less, sorry.