F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

[Dr. Diesel]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 01:26:58PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
>
> > Remember, opensource is about giving people a choice, not limiting
> people's
> > choices.
>
> You have many choices. The choices include:
>
> *) Adding an xorg.conf fragment that re-enables zapping
> *) Filing a bug against the server and, through rational argument,
> convincing the upstream maintainers to revert this
> *) The above, but for the Fedora maintainers
> *) Using a locally patched package
> *) Forking the entirity of Fedora
> *) Describing the use cases that require hitting ctrl+alt+backspace and
> coming up with fixes that don't involve killing the entire user session
> *) Switching to Windows
> *) Switching to MacOS
> *) Becoming a hermit and not touching a computer ever again
>
> And dozens more. Changing a boolean default does not limit choice. The
> only change is that you now have the choice of enabling zapping rather
> than the choice of disabling it.
>
> --
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


This reply is ludicrous.  Might as well ship F12 without Gnome, you can
simply install it if you want......

The point is, a few protested and got the change submitted.  Never mind the
thousands that still want it.


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