feat: less "hand" cursors - #374
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Hi! This PR addresses the way the cursor shape changes when hovering some widgets.
Currently, the way the cursor behaves in Iced is closer to a webpage than a desktop: when hovering most widgets, the cursor turns into a "hand", whereas GTK and KDE keep the default "arrow" cursor.
The affected widgets are the following:
This is inconsistent with other desktop GUI frameworks and introduces some flickering when hovering a list of buttons. It also kinda makes Iced/libcosmic apps feel more like webapps than "native" apps.
For instance, here is a video comparing file managers from KDE, GNOME and COSMIC:
Kooha-2026-07-21-22-12-11.webm
Thanks!