On Sunday 03 August 2003 06:20 pm, Robert L Martin wrote:
> Instead of emotional outbursts, please rather document the reasons you
> don't like mdkkdm, as others have done on the cooker wiki. Maybe the only
> reason you detest mdkkdm is that you can't log in as root by default, and
> if they change the default to be kdm, maybe they will disable root login
> there by default too (since it really is best to prevent this, and force
> users into good habits, although of course you can change this if you like
> your bad habits).
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>- instead of trying to out handhold Gates why doesn't the login box have a
> Write-in box?? you know have the group of icons and then a box for other
> logins ie icons for Bob George Fred Barney JeanValjean but Root BOFH and
> Javair would need to type their login (and password)
>
> And personally i would strip all of the "You are logged in as Root You are
> a Bad and Foul Person" dialogs from the distro. (now i would not enable
> auto log in for Root like certain companies do)
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I think something along this line is what I was trying to get accross.. I
wasn't at all emotional, just pointing out that many others don't like mdkkdm
and that I personally detest it. NO, the reason I detest it is not because I
can't log in as root automatically, I very seldom log in as root, BUT I want
the choice. There are times when logging in as root can make things much
simpler than trying to remember the CLI command for a given program and
having to Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in as root, init 3 and startx is way too much
trouble.. Simply being able to log out of KDE and relogin as what ever user
I choose, root or otherwise, is in my opinion a better way to use the
flexibility of Linux..
--
Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR
Payette, Idaho
