Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
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
Please read the entire thread before responding to very early
postings. The discussion has moved well beyond this point.
Regards,
Gerry
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