F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Giancarlo Niccolai]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:
>
>>
>> Good computing => "least surprise effect".
>> People coming from windows => ctrl+alt+<fumble>bs  "OH CRAP --- I am 
>> so XXXX I forgot to save my work files in 15 Word (ops, Openoffice) 
>> windows in the past 3 days!!!!"
> And where is the problem? These people have just been through an 
> elementary lesson on difference of OSes in a violent way.
>
> Or to put it conversely: Who do these windoze newbies think they are 
> to throw away a well-known and valuable feature has been around for 15 
> years or more?
>
> Ralf
>
I don't know if you noticed it, but that was exactly my point. We can't 
prevent anyone from doing dumb things; there will always be a smarter 
way to do dumb things just the same. It seemed to me that the above 
"people coming from windows" surprise situation is a bit ridiculous, and 
I hoped someone else  felt the same way (as you do). By extension, 
preventing that surprise by denying a nearly vital feature, unless you 
find out the hard way that it has been removed is and are probably not 
in the position to re-enable it,... is just at the same level of the 
surprise it wanted to spare.

Just, I thought we were all  linuxsters enough to get the puny of that 
right away.

GN.