RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Brian Wheeler]

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 09:47 +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> > Brian Wheeler wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > A matter of perspective. Some will say cursors are blinking for technical
> > reasons.
> >
> 
> Hey, the guy's name is "Wheeler". If anyone ought to know why they're
> round, it's him. ;-)


That's the theory, at least :)