Fwd: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea? - no.

[Fergal Daly]

2009/2/13 Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>:
> Thomas Jaeger [2009-02-12 17:16 -0500]:
>> This is not a healthy discussion.  We have people claiming that they
>> can't live without C-A-B
>
> Nobody stops them from re-enabling it (to the contrary, there's a new
> tool "dontzap" which makes this very easy). Please keep in mind that
> we aren't discussing taking this away entirely, just changing the
> default.
>
> Also, please be aware of the fact that this is a *developer* list,
> who naturally has a differnent and more expert-oriented approach to
> using a system.

Anyway, I'm curious, is this really a developer list? I subscribed
because it was the only way to _contact_ ubuntu developers and I've
seen lots of people use it for that. So maybe it has more technical
users than the average but that's not the same thing as being a
developer list.

So is there a "user" list somewhere with thousands of people
complaining about the existence of CAB?

On the CAB issue, I won't miss it and I can't remember the last time I
needed it bu I would point out that on my wife's Japanese laptop, I
have never been able to find a way to press alt-sysrq-anything.
Requiring double-CAB seems like a good idea to me,


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