F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Adam Miller]

Sticking with old decrepit ways of doing things that aren't of good
design purely because it is tradition or "everyone knows about it" is
no reason to stick with it. Otherwise we are no better than Microsoft.
If this is something that needed to be changed and the X.org upstream
developers decided that they had a solid reason to do so, then I
support them. Anyone who has posted a case about it being and issue to
systems administrators or emacs users have yet to provide the list
with a situation that doesn't have an alternative or a solution.

-Adam

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Colin Walters wrote:
>> No, the right solution is to examine the cases for why people were
>> using the key before, and come up with a design which addresses them.
>
> This will not help at all, because people expect to be able to use the
> current key combo, not something new they never heard of.
>



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