--Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/
----- "Ralf Corsepius" rc040203@freenet.de wrote:
Per Bothner wrote:
"Jerry Amundson" jamundso@gmail.com wrote:
The downside of C-A-Bs accidentally typed hurts users who may not know what happened, and thus may give X a had name.
Are you serious?
Yes. I'm not saying accidentally typing C-A-Bs is a significant factor in giving X a bad name - just that the cost-benefit tradeoff to me suggests the traditional behavior isn't really a good idea.
Except that every couple of years, a groups of vocal folks (presumably newcomers) complains about it when accidentally hitting it, nothing actually serious has happened.
I'm not complaining for myself - but in this case I'd weigh higher the concerns of newcomers than somebody somebody who thinks they need a one-key-combination shortcut for killing X. I can't take seriously the complaint that switching to a virtual terminal to kill X is too much work - if that is the case, your workload is highly atypical ...
(Lest you think I'm a newcomer: 20 years ago my day job at Digital Equipment Corporation was optimizing an X server driver.)