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

[Odysseus Flappington]

2009/2/13 Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear.ie>:
> 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,
>
>
> F
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+1 to double-CAB