http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15809
John Gilmore gnu@winehq-bugzilla.toad.com changed:
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--- Comment #3 from John Gilmore gnu@winehq-bugzilla.toad.com 2008-10-31 13:54:40 --- This bug report was inappropriately closed. (Just because it's the usual sin among people responsible for triaging bugs, doesn't mean it's forgivable. At least he didn't close it saying "CAN'T REPRODUCE HERE, CLOSING".)
SOME people care about how much power computer systems use.
SOME people build battery-operated embedded systems whose lifetime depends on how little power the CPU sucks when idle.
SOME peoples' kernels power-off their CPU chip when nothing is happening.
SOME people write code that wakes up every half a second to blink the cursor, and never stops.
SOME people make their cursors blink forever until their battery dies.
Wine does not have to cater to those people.
SOME other people have already fixed their GUIs and their applications so that they don't blindly blink forever:
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/823 http://lwn.net/Articles/249545/ http://lwn.net/Articles/234816/ http://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/powertop-bof.html http://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/xchat-noblinkee.html http://www.jurta.org/en/prog/noblink
Wine should stop blinking its cursor after a while -- like Gnome and other environments that care about reducing useless power consumption.
This *%&*$ bugzilla interface won't let me reopen the bug, so I'll merely leave this note and hope that somebody else will reopen it.