RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 14:06 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 13:51 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 
> > - the 2W savings is only on a patched radeon driver, AIUI
> >   (although it could theoretically be ported to other drivers
> 
> This is great news!
> 
> The user will now get different experience depending on what
> graphic card they use!
> 
> Folks, this borders insanity. If we do that, it has to be
> as a _system_ setting that affects all drivers equally. 
> 
> This is like turning off flush only on a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9
> because it saves 1W for those drives.
> 
> This way lies madness.
> 
> -- 
> Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
> Lattica, Inc.


Ahem.  The blink would be off everywhere.  Only certain drivers will
save power due to this at first, more to follow.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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