On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > >> I really don't know what to say. It feels like the probability of >> burning my hair on the stove while sticking my foot in the freezer. > > Regardless of which default setting you prefer, the clear evidence is > that people do end up doing it accidentally. It doesn't have to be a > majority necessarily. I know atleast one such case personally where a > friend of mine wanted to press control alt del and since the delete key > was close to the backspace key, he accidentally pressed it. When (you > are new to Linux ) you do it accidentally, the experience is apparently > quite disturbing since you often lose data and there is no indication > that it is a expected behaviour of the system rather than a crash. I'm confused here. He was attempting to restart the entire machine, and instead restarted the X server, and this is considered a significant problem? > Ctl-alt-del is a well know Windows shortcut for rebooting but atleast > prompts before doing it (same thing happens in GNOME as well btw). I > personally think that the SUSE patch is a decent compromise and it looks > like fedora-setup-keyboard is going to make it a easy toggle in Fedora > as well. First of all, I'm not sure why what Windows does is really important. I think as a general rule for using machine, one shouldn't generally randomly press buttons -- on purpose or by accident -- and expect it to be all okay. That said... when did Ctrl+Alt+Delete stop rebooting? I just tried it and was surprised to see a dialog box instead. I remember using that key combo way back since RH 7.3, I just rarely needed it. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
