From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Blink cursor changes, possible W32 breakage.
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:58:00 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ggq3q3b.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hafui4gt.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:23:46 +0200")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> Yes, but timers are still running, so Emacs are never swapped out,
>> and drains battery on laptops (yes it makes a difference).
>
> Then I would suggest only turning on this functionality if the machine
> is on battery power. Surely there's a dbus message for that?
>
> For machines that aren't on battery power, this doesn't seem like
> something that users would want.
It seems like rather nice behavior from a user point of view,
actually: "active" windows will still be blinky, but "sitting in the
background forever" windows will not be. I doubt most users will even
notice, to be honest, because they tend to focus on active windows --
and to the degree that a blinking cursor draws attention to non-active
windows, the old behavior (always blinking) is arguably a _bad_ thing.
Given that, adding all the complexity necessary to use _battery power_
as a precondition seems quite absurd...
-miles
--
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without
knowledge, of things without parallel.
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-16 11:48 Blink cursor changes, possible W32 breakage Jan Djärv
2013-07-16 15:55 ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-16 16:15 ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-16 18:29 ` covici
2013-07-16 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-16 20:19 ` covici
2013-07-16 17:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-16 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-16 18:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-16 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-16 22:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-16 21:12 ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-16 21:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-16 22:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-07-17 1:58 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2013-07-17 7:42 ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-17 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-17 15:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-17 8:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-17 4:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-17 4:56 ` Miles Bader
2013-07-17 7:38 ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-17 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-17 16:29 ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-17 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-17 18:53 ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-17 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-17 19:38 ` Jan Djärv
2013-07-19 2:12 ` Miles Bader
2013-07-19 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-19 9:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-19 10:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-19 10:50 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-07-19 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-19 12:02 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-07-19 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-19 17:52 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-07-20 8:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-20 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-20 22:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-21 2:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-21 7:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-21 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-22 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-19 10:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-07-19 9:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-19 10:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-20 8:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-20 9:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-20 22:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-21 2:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-21 7:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-21 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-22 2:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-21 9:20 ` martin rudalics
2013-07-22 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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