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Three months ago, I sent an e-mail to this list about two serious annoyance=
s which crippled my use of pgAdmin completely.

One of them was that it had begun showing a white "flash" each time you ope=
ned a new "page", before drawing the real (dark) background. This was lucki=
ly fixed shortly afterwards.

However, the second issue, the hardcoded blinking caret which doesn't respe=
ct system settings nor has any preference to turn it off inside pgAdmin, re=
mains. It looks like it has been added with "low" priority in a big list of=
 bugs/suggestions which I have no idea how long they will take for anyone t=
o care: https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/8712 (I had to ask s=
omebody else to post it on Github because that site doesn't let me register=
 an account.)

Since Mozilla and others has ignored important issues for decades, and I'm =
literally screaming from frustration every time I'm using pgAdmin due to th=
e blinking caret, I have to ask: is there any chance that this will be care=
d about within a meaningful timeframe? I'm not exaggerating in the least wh=
en I claim that at least to me, this is a critical bug which seriously prev=
ents me from using the program. It really is that annoying. I always out of=
 necessity turn off blinking cursors and any other animated elements in my =
computer environment, but it seems impossible for pgAdmin.

Perhaps most of all I wonder how this can be something that only I seem to =
care about. How are you all able to think and type in the SQL query or do a=
nything else in the application when there's a blinking caret which constan=
tly steals your focus and attention?