Stop the Misuse of the Pointing Hand Cursor

[wangweixuan]

The UI of Code always gives me a uncomfortable feeling. I finally realized this is because of the faulty cursor.
All the buttons, as well as the tabs and the list items, use the pointing hand cursor, which shouldn't be used. A guideline of Windows states that this cursor is used for text and graphics links because of their weak affordance. Another one recommends us to use hover effects for clickable elements instead (currently we have hover effects for list items and some of the buttons, but not for tabs). It's the same for other platforms.
I hope we can change them into the default arrow cursor and get a fix on this soon.

[bpasero]

@stevencl should we stop using the hand cursor on all platforms maybe?

[laibulle]

Hi, I totally agree with @wangweixuan.

I use vscode every days and features are really awesome but this hand cursor make Vscode feels like IE5.

I removed hand cursor in this fork to test the behavior. In my opinion it is better but it is a matter of taste.

Do you think it is possible to make it customizable in the settings ?

[stevencl]

This makes sense to me too.

[roblourens]

@bpasero please assign to the right person if not you

[bpasero]

Closing "as designed", I see no issues with what we are doing.

[koggdal]

@bpasero Hi, could you elaborate on this? I agree with the rest here, and @wangweixuan backed it up with guidelines for various platforms.