RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Jesse Keating]

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:46 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:26 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > 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?
> 
> Not at all. I'm not forcing you do to anything, I'm all for
> having an option and a decent UI to change this IF YOU WANT.
> 
> But changing the default does indeed forces stuff on users
> as regular folks are not sophisticated enough to figure out
> WTF their computer stopped working as expected.
> 
> Changing the status-quo on basic things like this is just 
> not cool. The burden of proof is on the people doing the 
> change, and 1W doesn't cut it.
> 
> -- 
> Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
> Lattica, Inc.

Actually the burden of proof isn't on anybody.  The upstream maintainer
and / or the downstream maintainer can choose to adjust the default
setting.  Period.  No amount of noisy blabber on a mailing list will
remove that right.

Defaults change.  If not, we'd all still be storing everything in /etc/.
The fact that we can make this change and have real world benefit makes
it all the nicer.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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