My first DontZap use case while testing F11 beta

psmith psmith at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 14 10:16:44 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
> Yes because control alt del calls up the task manager in Windows in
> recent versions and even initiating a reboot, you get a prompt for
> confirmation and applications get time to save data.
>   

well there we have it! another who wants fedora to behave like it's written by m$, and i thought the redmond theme was as close as fedora would get to windows :(


>> 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.
>>     
>
> I don't recall the specifics but it has been that way for a long time now.
>
> Rahul
>
>   




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