On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 12:52 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
The argument appears to be coming from a (very!) vocal minority
(what
percentage of Fedora users are on this list, and what percentage of list
members are objecting?). The vast majority of users have no idea or
care about VT switching in my experience and will not care that X
switched from one tty to another (if you tried to explain it to them,
you'd just get blank stares). If it speeds up the boot process and
causes less flicker and monitor reset (which does disconcert regular
users), they'll be happy.
As for the argument that speeding up boot and making the boot smoother
is meaningless because you should never need to reboot, there are still
a lot of users that have to dual-boot. Speeding up boot (and shutdown!)
is a good thing for them.
Chris,
The problem is that we can have both. Let's all eat cake! This change of
X's VT is un-needed.
Dax Kelson
Guru Labs