On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:34:57 -0500 (EST)
"Dimi Paun" <dimi(a)lattica.com> wrote:
This is the crux of the issue: this problem does not have an obvious
correct solution. A normal approach would be "do no evil". That is,
there should be a hysteresis against changing well known behavior that
is tried, tested, and true. Experimental stuff like this should be
introduced gradually, with default to off, and only when it has been
proven in the field we may turn it on by default.
Assuming that the developers believed they did have the correct
solution they followed a reasonable course. Well, there should
have been an easy way to turn it off, but otherwise it was fine.
<offtopic>
Don't people find it funny that we, as a community, know all about
incremental improvements when it comes to patch management, but we behave
like righteous a--holes when it comes to imposing what we believe to be
the Right Way (TM) onto others? And hey, since we can now invoke the
Usability Principle, we are in the right to remove any way for the
luser to opt-out of our One True Way.
But I digress, we are not the target audience...
</offtopic>
The more experimental kernel trees (eg. -mm) often ship wildly
speculative features forced on just to get wider testing. It is
easy to argue that Fedora is similiar in spirit in the distro space.
That said, I hate this feature and am willing to participate in any
public lynching of those who foisted it on us.
Sean
P.S. By the way, I only see this behavior from gnome-terminal, not the
menu or xterm like you seem to be seeing.