Ubuntu
gnome-session package

  1. Bug #890747
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 890747

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote : Re: Ctrl Alt Del doesn't do what most people typing it would expect

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.