> I as yet still have a hand on Ariadne's thread. It sounds like the
> general consensus is that
> * low level code like Files has no business monkeying with Cursor,
> * using Notifications allows us to have a pluggable feedback notification.
>
> For now that might well mean that we have something (UIManager?) that
> handles those messages and implements the current Cursor behaviour. Or
> something could supply custom UI feedback, for applications that
> needed something special.

Yes, that sounds reasonable.