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Re: F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 06:42:59PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le dimanche 29 mars 2009 à 21:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > > > Changes are (primarily) being made upstream. Downstream users can > > document and communicate changes which we have. > > Sorry, but that is utter bull*. The discussed change was requested by > Ubuntu users. It lived for quite a long time in their distro. Then it > was submitted upstream by Unbuntu people. For better or worse upstream > merged it. No. The patch was written and committed by Daniel Stone, who is not an Ubuntu developer. The issue was discussed with the Fedora X maintainers before it was merged. Everyone involved agreed that not having a keystroke that caused immediate data loss was a sensible idea. > At the same time, Fedora upstream devs didn't use their influence to > block the change, didn't try to check what Fedora users wanted, and now > we get the usual "upstream decided, live with it" speach. A development mailing list is a poor way of judging user desire, as are non-representative polls. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list (Log in to post comments)
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