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GNOME 3.4 releasedGNOME 3.4 releasedPosted Mar 28, 2012 17:51 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)In reply to: GNOME 3.4 released by drdabbles Parent article: GNOME 3.4 released
CTRL+ALT+DEL is synonymous with a badly behaving computer Synonymous for you, anyway. The cultural connotations of symbols are neither time-invariant nor space-invariant, and the symbol "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" has had an assortment of connotations over the course of the more than 25 years I've been aware of it.
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Cultural connotations Posted Mar 28, 2012 21:04 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Any of those connotations were positive? For me (and my blissful ignorance of CTRL+ALT+DEL for many years, at least in practice, until I entered the corporate world) all of them are negative-to-pure-evil-incarnate.
Cultural connotations Posted Mar 29, 2012 2:04 UTC (Thu) by drdabbles (subscriber, #48755) [Link]
I understand the historical and current purpose and meaning of CTRL+ALT+DEL. I, too, have been in the industry for a while. But the fact remains that the general feeling of CTRL+ALT+DEL is a combination to be used when something has gone wrong.
To attach that stigma and historical baggage to something used to simply signal your UI shell that you want to reboot, logout, or shut down is unintuitive to uses moving from the windows world to the Linux desktop. You and I perfectly understand, because we're advanced users. My girlfriend simply wouldn't get it.
Cultural connotations Posted Mar 29, 2012 9:52 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] I understand the historical and current purpose and meaning of CTRL+ALT+DEL. It does not looks this way from this side. Have you actually tried to see just what you get in Windows Vista or Windows 7 when you press ALT+CTRL+DEL? Take a look on bottom right corner. To attach that stigma and historical baggage to something used to simply signal your UI shell that you want to reboot, logout, or shut down is unintuitive to uses moving from the windows world to the Linux desktop. What? Why? Why is it fine in Windows world, but not in Linux world? Do you mean they can only find red “power” button in bottom right corner and can not find it when it's closer to the center of the screen?
Cultural connotations Posted Mar 29, 2012 10:28 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] For me, the strongest connotations Ctrl-Alt-Delete has had are:
GNOME 3.4 released Posted Apr 3, 2012 14:31 UTC (Tue) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] The only connotation it has for me is "Something the user is not likely to type by mistake." When you want to be sure it was a deliberate action it *may* be because it does something drastic. Linux's magic sysrq behavior serves exactly the same purpose.
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