On Saturday 28 March 2009 19:15:28 Dan Nicholson wrote: > 2009/3/28 Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > 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". > > Please stop with the conspiracy theory. This has nothing to do with > emacs. It has everything to do with people accidentally killing their > X session. I have no idea where you've gotten the idea that this was > done for emacs users. Read Daniel's reply to you again. > > -- > Dan Can someone, please, explain me what is a user trying to do when he accidentally kills X? And if the answer is: "Pressing all the buttons he sees", what stops the same user from pressing reset/poweroff or even Ctrl-Alt-F4 + Ctrl-Alt-Del? Oh and one more... I also wonder why we don't disable Ctrl-Alt-Fn, cause a user may accidentally switch to another vt and don't know how to come back. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
