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Cultural connotationsCultural connotationsPosted Mar 28, 2012 21:04 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: GNOME 3.4 released by mpr22 Parent article: GNOME 3.4 released 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.
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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:
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