On Monday 02 February 2009 05:26:40 pm seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:18 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 19:29 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > > the point is most people won't care enough either way. And if we > > > disable it then we save power on each machine. > > > > I can speak from personal experience with customers that people care > > about a blinking cursor. They are used to it, and when it goes away > > they are upset. > > > > > More power saved == less energy used == yay for the world. > > > > The amount of energy used is minimal. This is not the way to go > > about it. We should have a "Power Manager" that should have a > > selector between: > > Min power Default Max performance > > > > setting, and the "Min power" stuff should disable the cursor > > for the people that care for the 1W. > > > > Don't force this sort of stuff on people like that. > > you mean in the same way you're forcing the use of more power on me? > > > -sv 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. -- Conrad Meyer <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
