Bug#492124: apparently no way to disable blinking cursor

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

reassign 492124 openoffice.org-core
severity 492124 wishlist
forwarded 492124 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6071
thanks

Hi,

Frederik Eaton wrote:
> Package: openoffice.org-base

Read the package description of -base again and retihnk whether that was
the correct package ;-)

> Version: 1:2.4.0-6

Doesn't exist anymore.

> Severity: normal

No. It's a wish -> wishlist.

> Many people are aggravated by having to look at a blinking cursor when
> they are editing a document - one web page compares it to Chinese
> water torture. I have disabled the blinking cursor in Gnome and

OMG. Torture is someting else.

> Firefox and in my terminal, but there appears to be no way to do it in
> OpenOffice. If this is true, then until there is a way, the software

OpenOffice.org.

> will be practically unusable to me and to a minority of others. This
> is an accessibility issue, which should be pretty easy to fix.

This is already told to the OOo authors in issue 6071 for 6 years now,
but as it's assigned to requirements it can only take a few years more
if at all until this is done.

Regards,

Rene