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Cultural connotationsCultural connotationsPosted Mar 29, 2012 2:04 UTC (Thu) by drdabbles (subscriber, #48755)In reply to: Cultural connotations by man_ls Parent article: GNOME 3.4 released
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.
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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?
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