RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Feb 3 22:13:07 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 21:42 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:53 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:09 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >>> 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?
> >> There's a reason it's been like this in like ... forever.
> >> Doesn't it strike you as strange to change one of the
> >> longest established conventions on a whim?!?
> > 
> > Tradition is not an argument in fedora.
> 
> And I'm not sure it's even true.  I have never seen an Xterm flash,
> but my gnome-terminals do.

False tradition is also not an argument in fedora. :)

-sv





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