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