Gerry Reno wrote:
This is a big deal because now some tiny minority has lobbied for
changes to X that end up affecting a large community. And the bogus
arguments about user getting confused about keys is just that totally
bogus. I've never had a user complain about X control key
combinations. Emacs users complain because Emacs wants to have the same
key control sequences as Xorg. That's just wrong. And as a sys admin
if you're not willing to stand up and say that's wrong, then watch for
more ridiculous changes coming your way in the future.
I agree here, I think disabling Ctrl+Alt+BkSp by default makes no sense
whatsoever.
Sure, it's just a default setting, but that doesn't mean the default
shouldn't be sane.
And setting defaults is one of the things a distribution is for. I disagree
about the assertion that we should blindly follow upstream defaults.
Several packages have Fedora-specific default configurations. KDE even has
a kde-settings package for that purpose (and no, there's no way we're going
to remove that package). Many other packages ship with config files which
differ from upstream's defaults.
Kevin Kofler