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

[Stefan Kangas]

Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:

> Hi.
>
> 1 sep 2014 kl. 20:42 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>
>>> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 11:24:31 -0700
>>> From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
>>> Cc: 755351@bugs.debian.org, Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>,
>>>    18372@debbugs.gnu.org, 755351-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> Those that we look at had a GUI in Gnome at one point to change them. Also the
> set of settings has not been very stable. There is no GUI in current Gnome to
> change them, so they aren't really the place where a user can easily tweak
> settings.
>
> So in 99% (figure from air) of the cases these settings are never
> changed. It is not worth it to track a setting that with high
> probability will be removed or change name/place within two years.

So if we don't want to chase these settings, does it make sense to keep
this bug open?  Maybe Po Lu has any comments?