RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 02:13:18AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:29:05AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>>> Le mardi 03 février 2009 à 17:24 +0100, Tomasz Torcz a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>>   Uhm, sorry? The talk was of about 1-2W. Given that my Thinkpad T400
>>>>> could go to 10,3W when idle
>>>> But when it's idle, you are in screensaver or blank screen with no
>>>> cursor anyway. The "wins" are massively overhyped,
>>> Agreed.
>>>
>>> I think it's time to demand measurement procedures such that people 
>>> can  reproduce this claim.
>>
>> Those were already provided.
> Are you referring to Felix Miata's table?
>
> To me these read more as a joke but real defined testing scenarios.

No.  Matthew already outlined exactly how he took his measurements.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg02387.html

josh