On 3/28/2009 10:55 AM, Gerry Reno wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> [2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-September/038786.html >> The poll was meaningless; that thread just captures people's >> sentiments. When the patch was committed, it was because the X >> developers had been talking about it for a long time as being the >> right thing to do. > The X developers had been talking about without ANY community input. > That makes for very bad decisions. They didn't even realize that people > expect the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to be available to them as it has for > decades. What is left unsaid is that there a lot of emacs users in > Xorg. Despite the fact that they sign as "a vim user", they're all vim > users but mostly emacs users, and that's not the same as signing "not > an emacs user". > I've opened a thread on xorg-devel and have been getting nothing but > ridiculous arguments in response. Mostly like, "well *I* accidentally > killed my X server while I was typing". Total nonsense. This is all > about a tiny minority of Emacs users, mostly inside Xorg itself > introducing a change that has a large to impact to the overall Xorg > community and all for the benefit of just the tiny Emacs community. > That completely wrong and is bad stewardship. > Fedora needs to see this change for what it really is and reject it. We > need to continue the historical default behavior for Ctrl-Alt-Backspace > that users and sysadmins have counted on for decades without > organizations and users needing to install special setups in xorg.conf > which is a completely unnecessary bother and a waste of time and resources. Just keep repeating to yourself, "Linux is an OS... Linux is not a cause... Linux is an OS... Linux is not a cause..." ;-) -- David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
