On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Mark markg85@gmail.com wrote:
So, how much is Microsoft paying you guys? Anyone who has been posting to this thread who has been receiving kickback money, please let us know how much you are getting.
You're going a little paranoid now i think. Also if you want to get it back the old way (like i do) you don't need to pay X.org 1 cent. Just fork it but think of the consequences if you do. X.org is huge.
I really wonder why this change isn't reverted yet.. there are so many opposed to this new dontzap default that some Xorg devs just don't seem or want to listen. O and btw i had my first Xorg dontzap issue as well. luckily a CTRL + ALT + F# followed by a killall appname solved it and x worked fine again.
Increasingly the change sounds like a good idea just for the increasing motivation it will create to fix broken issues with X.
X shouldn't be freezing and the causes of X freezes can be fixed. Yet people will continue to mistakenly hit ctrl-alt-bs even if the software is made perfect. Yes, I think this is an unimportant change, but that doesn't mean that I don't also agree with it.
I'm sorry, people in this thread have talked about "windows mentality", but I think the real example of windows mentality is having a "crash" button on your keyboard because your system sometimes freezes.
Shall we add a wipe-dotfiles button next because sometimes they become corrupted and the desktop environment no longer lets you log in?
Windows doesn't have a crash button. I'm not sure why you think having a button that will aid you in the event of a crash is a bad thing. However, I think you should have the choice to remove it, while is there by default for everyone else. Because in the event of a crash, you can choose not to use it, but I can't install it during the crash just so that I can then use it.
And I'm not sure what would be wrong with a tool that intelligently moved dot files if it allowed a non expert user to login and get assistance.