RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Brian Wheeler]

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 01:27 +0100, Ralf Corsepius 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.
> 
> Sometimes traditions have good reasons - There are reasons why wheels 
> are shaped round and not rectangular.

Just as a nitpick, wheels are round for a technical reason, not because
of tradition.