F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[psmith]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 06:42:59PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>   
>> Le dimanche 29 mars 2009 � 21:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a �crit :
>>
>>     
>>> 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.
>>     
>
> No. The patch was written and committed by Daniel Stone, who is not an 
> Ubuntu developer. The issue was discussed with the Fedora X maintainers 
> before it was merged. Everyone involved agreed that not having a 
> keystroke that caused immediate data loss was a sensible idea.
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> A development mailing list is a poor way of judging user desire, as are 
> non-representative polls.
>
>   
but who on earth can press those three keys by mistake? you'd have to be 
dumb, so the data loss point is moot, anyway if x locks up and zap is 
disabled your going to lose the data in a reboot anyway unless you have 
re-compiled the kernel and turned on the sysreq keys

phil