2009/3/27 Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Adam Miller wrote: > > This change to default behavior of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is an example of a > tiny minority of Emacs users lobbying xorg for a change that will affect a > huge number of community and commercial >users including datacenters and > their sys admins. This change needs to be reversed immediately. > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is embedded now into many tools including all the > virtualization tools. It is >part of the DNA of every sys admin. To change > this behavior is just insanity. > > Regards, > Gerry > > > Please stop throwing around the "sys admins will freak out" card, I'm > a sys admin and we do things correctly through provisioning using > kickstarts. It will be maybe a 3 line edit to a script. It was an > upstream choice, Fedora has historically remained compliant with > upstream so I imagine if you would like a change to be made on this > topic it would be most effective to discuss it with upstream. > > -Adam > > > > I intend to discuss it with upstream. But this is a huge change to default > behavior for X control that almost NO ONE knows about. The default methods > of controlling the X server have been around for decades and many users and > sys admins automatically know what the default behavior is that can be > counted on in almost all situations and therefore this constitutes a big > change. And big changes like this need to be advertised extensively instead > of just quietly slipped in. I was hoping that Fedora might take the lead on > stopping this bad change. And again, yes, I'll take this to upstream as > well. Solution, ask people to include it in the Release Notes, where it belongs, and let sysadmins act appropriately. This is how things are done in Fedora. -Yaakov -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
