'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 17/12/11 20:24 did gyre and gimble: > 'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 17/12/11 10:58 did gyre and gimble: >> About the question how hard it is to press another key: not hard. But >> the Ctrl-Alt-F1 has been a standard in ALL distributions and ALL >> documentations. > > Back in the day, text logins were the norm, graphical logins came later. > Text logins got ttys 1-7... These days they are pretty much useless for > 99.5% of the use cases and we have to move with the times. There is no > point keeping this static for the sake of "that's how it's been done > before". This is the kind of mentality that block progress. > > If we don't want progress and if we don't want to shake of some of the > hangovers from the old Unix days, we wouldn't have udev, we wouldn't > have systemd and we wouldn't have numerous other bits. > > The same arguments can easily be applied to other areas (people expect > system service scripts to be in /etc/init.d/ etc.). We need to let it go. > > As graphical logins are the norm, we should be be catering to them > first, and leave text logins for special cases. > > That's my take on it.
Oh and I forgot to say Fedora have been doing this for a long time and other distros have also been experimenting with it too, so this is very much not something we're going out on a limb to do, but we are trying to push things forward a bit. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
