On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org 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.