RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 08:47:18PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 17:43 -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> 
> > No, it's a change from the long-time traditional behaviour -- the power 
> > consumption due to the cursor blinking *by default* isn't more than it used to 
> > be. The default can be changed for those obsessed with power saving.
> 
> It's not more than it used to be - it's the same and we can reduce power
> use by disabling it. Pretty easy.
> 
> Also - I think I'm comfortable saying that the Fedora Project is
> interested in power saving.
> 
> I'd be happy to ask the board about that as a specific interest and goal
> of the fedora project.

We should be interested in saving power, but shouldn't use that as a
sole reason to disable Fedora interest groups' activities.  For
instance, it probably saves significant power for us to never issue
another Fedora Live CD that uses a runlevel other than 3, but that's
an unreasonable target.

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