I've found energy saving as argument at this point kind of absurd, refraining from negative list of apps, servers, cars ... , questioning the impact it seems rather a political than usability argument. I'd expect to visualize if a terminal window has focus or not, without a blinking cursor there is no such indication. Agreed on an opt-in option, but since it sounds like a final decision from upstream I'll have a look at other terminal apps.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/838381 Title: The cursor in active terminal window stops blinking after ten seconds. Status in GNOME Terminal: Invalid Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When the cursor stops blinking, you start to wonder if something is wrong. The point is that the cursor should never stop blinking in an active terminal window. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Aug 31 23:46:47 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110402) SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-27 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-terminal/+bug/838381/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
