On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:50 -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
Heh...that's funny.
you clearly have no idea what I've been doing for a living for a very long time. :)
Fedora QA Community Monkey
Ahh, so this is about job continuity[1]? :)
Paul [1] It's a joke. Sorry, couldn't resist.
Haha :) No, it's just that, as far as I can see, the impact on newbies is that we tell them to reboot instead of doing ctrl-alt-backspace. Total cost: about twenty seconds (time to reboot vs. time to restart X). Killing X kills all X apps in any case, so they're not going to lose any data rebooting that they wouldn't have lost anyway by doing ctrl-alt-backspace. Or are our newbies running emacs in virtual consoles now?
You're correct. I guess we will just have to live with the fact that X got a little bit lamer. I don't fully understand why, perhaps it's an ego thing, perhaps X strives to be more like windows, perhaps people are just clueless and dumb or maybe a little bit of all of the above. Maybe Microsoft is paying the X guys to disable the feature by default, I don't know? I guess no one will ever know the *real* reason why the defaults were changed.