X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

shmuel siegel fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Tue Oct 28 18:04:25 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 18:38 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>   
>> Once more, your "F1 fetish" to me is a silly, avoidable change, whose
>> only feature it is to break documentations, habits and to add further
>> hassle.  A completely superfluous change.
>>     
>
> As noted multiple times on this thread, the change prevents the
> multi-second monitor refresh issues when mode is changed by vt switches.
> We can save people 3+ seconds in their boot up to usability time which
> is no small feat.
>
>   
There were also many alternatives mentioned in this thread. And reasons 
were given as to why this change is a bad idea. I haven't seen any 
response to the alternatives. The typical response to the objections 
were either "don't start a flame war" or "who cares about your use 
case". Is feedback wanted?




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