On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 18:01 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
No. The patch was written and committed by Daniel Stone, who is not
an
Ubuntu developer. The issue was discussed with the Fedora X maintainers
before it was merged. Everyone involved agreed that not having a
keystroke that caused immediate data loss was a sensible idea.
So we're disabling ctl-alt-del too?
If killing the X server is causing data loss, then there's a bug in your
applications. In fact, that's an argument for ctl-alt-bs to be a regular
part of applications testing.
... And still doesn't address the fact that the key combo could be
changed to something more obscure rather than disabling it completely.