Re: [HIG] A fundamental issue that hasn't been addressed

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 06:53, Mark Summerfield wrote:

> I believe your guidelines should recommend that people are given control
> of their cursor's blink rate (including no blinking at all).

Cursor blinking is dealt with at the desktop level by the Dekstop
Preferences->Keyboard dialog.  Individual applications shouldn't be
doing anything different (indeed, I don't even know if they can, if they
use standard gtk widgets), which is why we didn't mention it :)

Obviously if there things other than cursors that flash in your
application then the user should have control over those (possibly by
repsecting the same setting as the cursor uses)... I think there's a
guideline in there to that effect, unless it was indavertently
deleted...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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