RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default
Dimi Paun
dimi at lattica.com
Tue Feb 3 02:34:45 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 02:20 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Min power Default Max performance
>
> So a blinking cursor indicates higher performance than a non-blinking
> one? You can't represent power management on a one dimensional scale.
> That's poor UI.
Whatever. This can be worked around.
Somehow on this forum saying that "90%+ of users use Windows" is a
"made up statistic" whereas saying that turning off blinking on a cursor
is going to save millions of trees is self evident. Yay!
Changing defaults like this is just a way to shoot ourselves in the
foot. Real customers/users are very finicky about the tiniest of
details. Dealing with them directly is a great learning experience.
Besides, we seem to enjoy pain: nobody will appreciate a non-blinking
cursor, yet we know _some_ will have a big problem with it. The only
people benefiting from it is the ones doing mental calculations about
trees saved. That's a tiny minority.
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Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.
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