My first DontZap use case while testing F11 beta

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Apr 15 01:40:54 UTC 2009


Christopher Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 18:14 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>
>>> We aren't whining.
>>>
>>> We are fiercely fighting to prevent serious harm to Fedora's usability.
>> Oh, come on, quit exaggerating.
I don't think I am exaggerating.


> This is a pretty trivial issue.
It is not - It is Red Hat and X having abandoned a substantial and vital 
feature.

IMO, it's equivalent to them having removed the "emergency brakes". A 
step they should be ashamed of of.

>> Grow a sense of perspective.
> 
> Adam obviously has not given much thought to the ramifications this
> change has.
The #1 ramification will be people finding themselves in situations of 
having "to unplugging the power cord" to get out X when "X/their desktop 
runs wild/becomes unusable".

Great progress, great achievement!

Ralf




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