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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#19489: Disable CTRL+ALT+Backspace keystroke in KDE!
From:       maarizwan () hotmail ! com
Date:       2001-01-31 20:09:35
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Package: kcontrol
Version: 2.0.1
Severity: normal


Why should we disable / block this restart X keybinding? 

well, the answers are:

    1.    "To prevent a KDE user from accidentally losing his/her work (say, an \
unsaved KWord document). Which could be very important.  2.    It is rather \
ungraceful/awkward to kill X to logout.  3.    Some settings doesn't get applied when \
X is killed.  4.    To encourage good habit of gracefully logging out. 

Both killing X logout and proper logout from Kicker, will take almost same time. So, \
its is okay to force a user to logout properly.

So what to do?

Just like Ctrl+Alt+Delete keybinding it (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace) should be disabled by \
default (I don't expect KDE to get hang!) We can have an option "Allow \
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace keybinding to kill X" in KControl's System module. By default it \
should be disabled (unchecked or does not allow to kill X from within KDE). One more \
way to solve this problem is to ask "Do you really want to Kill X?" when the user \
presses Ctrl+Alt+Backspace keystroke. Got my point?

I pray, "Let KDE does not allow its user to mess his/her work :)"

Thank you.


(submitted via bugs.kde.org)


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