Andrea: In Mac OS X Ctrl Alt Del deletes the previous word -- but only
because that's what Alt Del does, and the Ctrl is ignored. Someone using
Ubuntu who types Ctrl Alt Del is far more likely to have previously used
Windows than to have previously used Mac OS X, because (a) the combo
does nothing special in Mac OS X, and (b) there are many more Windows
users. And I don't understand how you think that restarting the computer
would be a "compromise".

manny, Marco: Constructing a dialog specially for Ctrl Alt Del might
make sense if it was a good keyboard shortcut in itself, but it is not,
as even its inventor has pointed out.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zADyh0JQh8> The point here is not to
emulate Windows, but to provide something that people pressing it are
likely to be looking for, *without* adding extra interface surface area.

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