On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 02:06 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: > 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 lost 3 hours work one day, I can document it if you like. It was a major impact event for me. I've actually started hitting a lot more often on laptop keyboards, since the bloody keys are a lot closer together, I also notice I hit it when I get brain pauses, I've got ctrl-alt down to switch desktops, and I distract myself to delete a word in something else and boom, bye bye desktop. Get over it, move on, the world sometimes changes, adapt or die etc. Dave. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
