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incorrect drag & drop cursor on Windows #8498

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We're showing a cross with arrows which is usually used to move contents around in a layout. Seems inappropriate for drag & drop interactions.
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Playing around with some other applications on Windows it seems there's no accepted standards. Oftentimes just the blank cursor with something being dragged. However a regular cursor with some kind of dashed rectangle top bottom to it is popular it seems, something like this:
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