RFC: Disabling blinking cursor by default

Dave Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Wed Feb 4 04:21:39 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 22:33 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 20:20 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > No.  Matthew already outlined exactly how he took his measurements.
> > 
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg02387.html
> 
> The problem with this measurement is that it measures max wattage
> when the cursor blinks. But for a typical user browsing, reading
> documents, reading email, etc. the cursor blinks a tiny portion
> of the time, only when they _write_ an email. I'd venture to say <10%. 
> 
> If that is so we're looking at a saving of about 0.2W for a typical
> user. Is this enough to flip the default?
> 
> Here's another proposal: during first boot prompt the user to
> change the default to no-blink, explain the benefits, tell
> them how to switch back if they don't care for it. This way
> nobody will get frustrated or will be surprised their system
> no longer works the way they expect it to. 

Where does the stupid come from?

Dave.

> 
> I know it is more work, but this affects an important UI behavior.
> If 0.2W is not all that important to justify the work, lets drop it.
> 
> -- 
> Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
> Lattica, Inc.
> 




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