RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Conrad Meyer]

On Monday 02 February 2009 05:26:40 pm seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:18 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 19:29 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > the point is most people won't care enough either way. And if we
> > > disable it then we save power on each machine.
> >
> > I can speak from personal experience with customers that people care
> > about a blinking cursor. They are used to it, and when it goes away
> > they are upset.
> >
> > > More power saved == less energy used == yay for the world.
> >
> > The amount of energy used is minimal. This is not the way to go
> > about it. We should have a "Power Manager" that should have a
> > selector between:
> >    Min power     Default    Max performance
> >
> > setting, and the "Min power" stuff should disable the cursor
> > for the people that care for the 1W.
> >
> > Don't force this sort of stuff on people like that.
>
> you mean in the same way you're forcing the use of more power on me?
>
>
> -sv

No, it's a change from the long-time traditional behaviour -- the power 
consumption due to the cursor blinking *by default* isn't more than it used to 
be. The default can be changed for those obsessed with power saving.

-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>