Tootfinder

People should always be able to search by keyword rather than navigate menus.
Especially if we (who make human-computer interfaces) do not want people to turn to life-destroying chatbot interfaces.
Are #KDE and #Gnome or others working on a standard way to do that in each program?

I wll say, even without a visible mouse pointer, #linuxmintcinnamon is a very smooth experience on the #iMac11 and has a system app that reads my BIOS so while I can't find the boot hotkey, I can at least see I'd have no need to change it!
But this is #Xorg. As in the #XWindows GUI I've using for almost 40 years, and I know we had, once upon a time, all sorts of cute pointer mods, so if #Gnome doesn't, there must be an old-school way of simply restoring that icon.
Last time wasn't from Firefox, I'd been using the Terminal app and lost the visible pointer on exit.

So I'm on GNOME now and it feels weird.
Do I have to touch the hot corner (top left) when I want to access the "dock"? Is there a faster way by just moving the mouse?