RFE Adjustable Cursor Size

[Eric Oberlander]

Hi

I've just bought a Samsung Chromebook to replace my old iBook which finally died, and as I have rather poor eyesight, the one feature I am really missing is the ability to adjust the size of the cursor (or mouse pointer) on screen. On the Mac, I could increase the Cursor Size, up to 10 times normal size, under Preferences > Universal Access > Mouse >  For difficulties seeing the mouse. Unfortunately, when the cursor was just scaled up, it looked pretty rough and pixellated, but it's a lot easier to see. 

It is(was) possible to increase the cursor size in Ubuntu, with a nice smooth (vector graphic?) cursor, but from distro to distro, they have moved, or hidden, the location of the control that changes the size. In 12.04 it's semi-broken, in that it works in some applications, but not in others.

So, how can I help? I'm a designer, not a coder. At this stage I've no idea if this is being worked on already, or which part of the OS it falls under. Can it be implemented as an extension, or if it is part of the underlying OS, or should it be a Theme. I know what I'd like, but don't know where to start.

Regards

Eric