RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default
Dimi Paun
dimi at lattica.com
Sat Feb 7 15:07:27 UTC 2009
On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 00:46 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> No, it's because someone directly measured a reduction in power usage.
> Quite scientific, really.
Having some savings is not in and of itself an argument,
if not correctly quantified (1).
Engineering is all about balancing costs/benefits, and
it's arguably bad engineering to affect functionality
for savings that are probably way too small to measure.
And if you adopt the stance that any power saving is good,
why don't we do other things that are as simple to
implement and can easily save an order of magnitude more power:
- replace the background picture with just black
- default to a inverted color scheme (predominantly black)
- disable pulseaudio
The list can go on and on, but where would we end up?
These sort of things may make sense for some users,
but not by sneaking them in as changes in default
behavior. Prompt them at first-boot, let them opt in.
Come on folks, it is the reasonable thing to do.
1. The floated value of 2W is probably overstated by
at least an order of magnitude, most likely two.
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Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.
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