[old thing to reply to, but seriously...] > We should not come from a place where we ASSUME X will fail, ... > We should assume X will work.
eh? give me a call when the world is a perfect place, there is no crime, hardware never fails, and all firmware + software has Zero bugs in it. Until that day we need ways to recover when things go wrong. > Pre-enabling an emergency reset key combo is a show of weakness, > or at least a strong lack of confidence. are you serious?! Disabling to please the ego?! We disable the recovery mechanisms because in an ideal world software would not crash, and admitting that it might can be seen as a cause of weakness?! We'd rather have to take down an otherwise working server than expose insecurity and admit fallibility?! Why not remove seat belts in cars too, because they suggest to others that some of us may not be able to control our cars properly on an icy corner, or avoid an obstacle with lightening reflexes? I'd suggest enabling the key combination was rather a sign of years of experience, not weakness. I recall long ago reading an interview with the guy who invented the ctrl-alt-del combo. He picked it as a key combination you couldn't make with one hand on the keyboards of the time, and a combo that no one would ever conceivably press by mistake. I posit that ctrl-alt-backspace would similarly so rarely be pressed by mistake that offering a confirmation pop up is not required -- if anything it just adds more opportunity for the corrupted X11 to stop your recovery. (I mean X locked up right? how are you going to click on a pop up? how are is the software going to decide for you that X's heap is not actually corrupt after all, and the user should get a pop-up instead?) thanks for pointing out dontzap, but it doesn't seem to exist on Lucid. Similarly, Alt+SysReq seems hijacked by some screenshot app. by default so can't use that either. argh.. ayeayeaye, Hamish -- "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359721 Title: Enable Ctrl - Alt - Backspace by default -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
