On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 01:16:10PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 18:01 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > No. The patch was written and committed by Daniel Stone, who is not an > > Ubuntu developer. The issue was discussed with the Fedora X maintainers > > before it was merged. Everyone involved agreed that not having a > > keystroke that caused immediate data loss was a sensible idea. > > So we're disabling ctl-alt-del too? No, since working at the console isn't an interesting desktop use case. > If killing the X server is causing data loss, then there's a bug in your > applications. In fact, that's an argument for ctl-alt-bs to be a regular > part of applications testing. I don't know about you, but I prefer my text editors not to save to disk on every keystroke. > ... And still doesn't address the fact that the key combo could be > changed to something more obscure rather than disabling it completely. What do you suggest? I'm serious here, if there's a genuinely implausible key combination then it's not going to be rejected out of hand - but I haven't been able to come up with one, and I haven't seen any good suggestions. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
