David Miller wrote:
From: Gerry Reno <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:42:13 -0400
This is smoke and mirrors. This is not about worrying about people
accidentally hitting Ctrl-Alt-Backspace while working on their
papers. I've never in thirty years of *nix experience working in
companies with tens of thousands of employees ever see this happen.
This is about implementing a change for Emacs users so that "their"
similar keystroke combinations don't conflict. And that's not
something that is affecting tens of millions of people. That is
affecting only the tiny Emacs community.
Wrong and wrong and wrong.
People here, like me, have told you that whilst they've used X for
years, and that they know what the keysequence is and what it does,
they have still hit it by accident and lost work.
I have fat fingers, other people do too. It's not about user
education either, like you continually claim.
And unlike the reset button and the power cord, the X server ZAP
sequence isn't protected in any "reasonable" way from accidental use.
Your fingers are flying over the "big red button" every time you type,
and that's what makes it a bad default.
If this were so, then you would have had thousands of people clamoring
in the forums about such a 'terrible' default. And we have seen no such
clamoring. And this Ctrl-Alt-Backspace historical keystroke combination
has been around forever. Your assertions about this so-called accidental
use are vastly overblown. I defy you to produce any credible documented
major impact events from such "accidental use". From experience I can
tell you, it just doesn't happen in any statistically significant way.
I would hope that all Xorg stakeholders will see this change for what it
really represents. And that any sensible distro will re-enable the
historical default for the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace keysequence.
Regards,
Gerry
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