A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:56:02 -0300 "Nicolas Alvarez" 
<nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday 20 October 2007 18:30, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> > On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>> > > Users overly concerned with using something that looks and feels like
>> > > Windows, IMO, probably want to run Windows.  "Windows does ...." is
>> > > really an irrelvant argument from my perspective.
>> >
>> > Should I throw away absolutely all advantages of running Ubuntu, and
>> > go back to Windows just because backspace in Firefox doesn't do what I
>> > want? Don't even bother mentioning about:config, very few users know
>> > that exists.
>>
>> Well you found the bug, so you do.  Your choice.  Linux is like that (the
>> choice part).
>>
>> Not losing data regularly is a big win for me.  You're saying it's 
better for
>> people to lose data than to have to learn to use a program slightly
>> differently.
>
>It's the wrong way to fix it. You can lose data by clicking enter
>while a link is focused too, should we disable the enter key? The
>right solution has been mentioned multiple times in multiple places:
>prompt "Are you sure you want to change page and lose what you typed?"
>
Agreed.  I've got no problem with that, but until there is code for that 
the current temporary fix shoild really stay.

Scott K