RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Dimi Paun]

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 02:20 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >    Min power     Default    Max performance
> 
> So a blinking cursor indicates higher performance than a non-blinking 
> one? You can't represent power management on a one dimensional scale. 
> That's poor UI.

Whatever. This can be worked around. 

Somehow on this forum saying that "90%+ of users use Windows" is a 
"made up statistic" whereas saying that turning off blinking on a cursor
is going to save millions of trees is self evident. Yay!

Changing defaults like this is just a way to shoot ourselves in the
foot. Real customers/users are very finicky about the tiniest of
details. Dealing with them directly is a great learning experience.

Besides, we seem to enjoy pain: nobody will appreciate a  non-blinking
cursor, yet we know _some_ will have a big problem with it. The only
people benefiting from it is the ones doing mental calculations about
trees saved. That's a tiny minority.

-- 
Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.