F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[psmith]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le dimanche 29 mars 2009 à 21:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
>
>   
>> Changes are (primarily) being made upstream. Downstream users can
>> document and communicate changes which we have.
>>     
>
> Sorry, but that is utter bull*. The discussed change was requested by
> Ubuntu users. It lived for quite a long time in their distro. Then it
> was submitted upstream by Unbuntu people. For better or worse upstream
> merged it.
>
> So you had one distribution that listened to its users and pushed a
> change they wanted.
>
> At the same time, Fedora upstream devs didn't use their influence to
> block the change, didn't try to check what Fedora users wanted, and now
> we get the usual "upstream decided, live with it" speach.
>
> And this is not an isolated case. It is consistent with historic Ubuntu
> and Fedora behaviour. This is sad. It is not the way to win new Fedora
> users.
>
>   
it's sad that one distro's users decision affects every other distro, 
especially when that one distro is the one that's trying to be and 
operate exactly like windows!

phil