Les Mikesell wrote:
Casey Dahlin wrote:
>>>
True, but it's one brick in a lengthy series of stupid and silly
decisions, which have been gradually running down Fedora into this
single-user windows clone it has evolved into.
Are you serious? Really? You must have a very tenuous grasp of OS
internals.
No, every change requires extensive documentation and retraining or
you will have confused and disgruntled users.
Who does this affect?
1) People using the console a lot who also run X (remember, runlevel
3 hasn't changed). Desktop users don't use consoles, server users
don't use X (I hope). Only a few species of geek remain.
This dichotomy exists only in your imagination. Desktop users
sometimes interact with servers, server users nearly always interact
with desktops.
The users are the same. The computers, however, are different.
2) People recovering from X crashes. Bugs. Errors. Things we could be
fixing and making not happen rather than accommodating this bizzare
F1 fetish.
People reading documentation. Please change the behavior _after_
updating all existing documentation.
Documentation changes need to go out /at/ the time of change. Not
before, not after (though they do need to be prepared ahead of time). I
know for the documentation we control the effort will be made to keep
that up to date. There's been a recent influx of new contributors
recently that care about this area a lot and are doing their best.
For documentation we don't control, well, there will always be issues.
I should also point out that for people that know about VTs, the mental
fallback pattern probably handles this well. *Ctrl+Alt+F1* "Huh?"
*Ctrl+Alt+F1* "What the..." *Ctrl+Alt+F2* "Hmm, that's weird"
*Ctrl+Alt+F1* "Oh, ok."
--CJD
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