Bug#165416: xfree86: no warning of meta/alt/windows key behavior change

[Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net>]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:58:48PM -0700, David Parker wrote:
> After reading the changelogs I figured out that I had to add the
> following to my XF86Config-4 file:
> 
> Option          "XkbOptions"    "altwin:meta_win"
> 
> There was no warning of this change, and for a long time I was
> unable to fix the problem.

I'm sure Branden will be considerably more caustic, but the best possible
answer would be... whyinhell hadn't you read the changelog in the first
place, where this is explicitly described?  This *is* unstable, after all.

You really gotta love the way people think nowadays... oh, no, I don't see
any reason why I should look at a changelog and find out what changed in
package "X"... I'll decide the KERNEL, which hasn't changed, must suddenly
be at fault.

Sheesh.

> I think that if this setting isn't added automatically to the user's
> config file, it should at least be documented in README.Debian and
> displayed in a dialog before the package is installed.

For every person that expects that ALT is ALT and Windows is META, there's
another person who expects that ALT is META and is going to lame about how
you've broken their copy of emacs.  Don't gratuitously add options to
configuration files.

-- 
Marc Wilson
msw@cox.net