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(a)tylerc.org>