On Saturday 28 March 2009 09:31:29 Arthur Pemberton wrote: > Could someone please explain what's going on. The only documentation > in Fedora i see about this decision is in the F11 alpha release notes. > Maybe everyone reads them but me, however it would be nice if these > kind of significant changes were announced. > > Its been said that this decision was taken upstream. My initial > Googling shows this first being brought up as an idea in Ubuntu [1] > where it is shown as implemented. It is later shown as a secret poll > on the freedesktop list [2]. Is there any reason the Xorg maintainer > in Fedora didn't make us aware of that all this was going on? > > Aren't the release notes expected to be read upon release, when it is > way to late to give input? I don't agree that adding a paragraph or > two in the release notes are good enough for changes that effect > everyone. Xorg seems especially guilty of making significant changes > which are later just discovered by users. > > [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/xorg-ctrl-alt-backspace > [2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-September/038786.html > > On 3/27/09, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Once upon a time, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> said: > >> Better yet, when is it not better to use SysRq keycombos and try to > >> diagnose things? > >> If you can get back keyboard control via SysRq, isn't it more > >> beneficial to make use of SysRq instead of zapping? > > > > Well, that's disabled by default also. > > -- > > Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > > > > -- > > fedora-devel-list mailing list > > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > > -- > Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin > ( www.pembo13.com ) And the most funny thing is, the secret polls result was *no* The poll was started on "Mon Sep 22 19:41:16 PDT 2008" And on " 2008-10-07 23:30:05 (GMT)" Daniel Stone committed the "Make DontZap the default" patch. P.S. yes, I'm one of the guys for whom sometimes Ctrl-Alt-Fn doesn't work, but Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does. P.P.S. google for <"Daniel Stone" fedora> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
