[Bug 15809] wine should not wake the cpu when idle

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15809


John Gilmore <gnu at winehq-bugzilla.toad.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from John Gilmore <gnu at 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.


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