On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:50 -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: >> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> > Heh...that's funny. >> >> > you clearly have no idea what I've been doing for a living for a very >> > long time. :) >> >> > Fedora QA Community Monkey >> >> Ahh, so this is about job continuity[1]? :) >> >> Paul >> [1] It's a joke. Sorry, couldn't resist. > > Haha :) No, it's just that, as far as I can see, the impact on newbies > is that we tell them to reboot instead of doing ctrl-alt-backspace. > Total cost: about twenty seconds (time to reboot vs. time to restart X). > Killing X kills all X apps in any case, so they're not going to lose any > data rebooting that they wouldn't have lost anyway by doing > ctrl-alt-backspace. Or are our newbies running emacs in virtual consoles > now? You're correct. I guess we will just have to live with the fact that X got a little bit lamer. I don't fully understand why, perhaps it's an ego thing, perhaps X strives to be more like windows, perhaps people are just clueless and dumb or maybe a little bit of all of the above. Maybe Microsoft is paying the X guys to disable the feature by default, I don't know? I guess no one will ever know the *real* reason why the defaults were changed. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
