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[manny <890747@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

funny video :)

>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


>The point here is not to emulate Windows, but to provide something that people pressing it are likely to be looking for

Valid points, but you're pointing out what "windows users" are
expecting.

So in windows (since vista), the behavior is to offer a *few common
options*.

Not saying we should offer "all" those options and clone their screen,
but most likely the 2 or 3 that "different users" would be expecting.

Else this could become an endless discussion since from memory the behavior of this shortcut in Ubuntu has changed in almost every release...
Someone has always found that it needed to do something different. So maybe providing a dialog with more than one option would be the best solution for the majority.

Am sure microsoft has done quite a good amount of user/enterprise
testing for choosing to provide that screen. So imho maybe some user
testing would be needed here to offer the best choices.

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Title:
  Ctrl Alt Del doesn't do what most people typing it would expect

Status in Ayatana Design:
  Triaged
Status in Unity:
  Confirmed
Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 11.10

  1. Type Ctrl+Alt+Del.

  What happens: In Unity, a mutant version of the Log Out dialog
  appears.

  What should happen: The nearest equivalent to the Windows Task Manager
  appears. Currently, that is the "Processes" tab of System Monitor.

  (Implementing this probably would invalidate bug 485740.)

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