RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Feb 3 20:09:17 UTC 2009


Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net) said: 
> But when it's idle, you are in screensaver or blank screen with no
> cursor anyway. The "wins" are massively overhyped, and the loss is users
> wondering where the damn cursor is (there are good reasons it was made
> to blink in the first place)

I fail to see how a solid cursor is that much harder to find than
a blinking one. Unless you're only entering solid boxes as text?

Bill




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