On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 01:16:10PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 18:01 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.
So we're disabling ctl-alt-del too?
No, since working at the console isn't an interesting desktop use case.
If killing the X server is causing data loss, then there's a bug
in your
applications. In fact, that's an argument for ctl-alt-bs to be a regular
part of applications testing.
I don't know about you, but I prefer my text editors not to save to disk
on every keystroke.
... And still doesn't address the fact that the key combo could
be
changed to something more obscure rather than disabling it completely.
What do you suggest? I'm serious here, if there's a genuinely
implausible key combination then it's not going to be rejected out of
hand - but I haven't been able to come up with one, and I haven't seen
any good suggestions.
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