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  • Can you clarify the question? A button that is available (clickable) is indicated by shape and color according to guidelines for standard desktop GUIs (Windows, Mac). An unavailable button is dimmed (often said to be "grayed out"). Are you asking why the pointer ("cursor") doesn't look like a pointer when it hovers on a button? In most cases, the pointer is a pointer. In Word for example, the pointer is an insertion point or bar when it is over text, but becomes a pointer when over a control that can be clicked. Commented Sep 1, 2021 at 17:09
  • @user8356: I think you're getting confused between the arrow cursor (which you call "pointer") and the pointing-hand cursor (which various UI frameworks call "pointer" in their API). Commented Sep 2, 2021 at 15:23