Subject: bug#18372: Bug#755351: blink-cursor-mode should respect GTK+ setting by default

From: Josh Triplett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 15:47:29 -0700

On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 09:42:15PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 11:24:31 -0700
> > From: Josh Triplett <[email-masked]>
> > Cc: [email-masked], Rob Browning <[email-masked]>,
> > 	[email-masked], [email-masked]
> > 
> > For the simplest possible implementation, determine the desktop setting
> > for whether the cursor should blink, and set blink-cursor-mode to that
> > at startup; any explicit setting would then override that.
> 
> Why should we only take blink-cursor-mode from there, and ignore all
> the rest?  E.g., cursor-blink-time and cursor-blink-timeout.  And then
> there are other settings, like cursor-size, clock-format, etc.  It
> makes very little sense to take only one setting.
> 
> (I know nothing about GTK, so apologies if these are silly questions.)

By all means, please do so.  blink-cursor-mode was just the particular
one that motivated my report.

- Josh Triplett