On Monday 14 of October 2013 13:53:47 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Unfortunately if appears nearly everyone has completely missed the point. Nope :-)
The act of changing settings on my system w/o notification is WRONG! Do you really think it is a good idea that every upstream change wrt. to defaults should be thrown at users face? This one particularly you seem emotional about, so i guess it makes sense to you that somehow there should be some kind of information shown that login/out sounds won't be played anymore by default, but this is just one random setting amongst the sea of others...
My system is set the way I prefer, not the way your's is or anyone else's, probably. It is a *personal* thing, and what I "want". In this case - no. It was set to follow upstream choice, which was until 4.11 coincidentally the same one you would made.
This is not windoz, *no-one* knows what is best for me.
The act of changing settings on my system w/o notification is WRONG! Yes, but they *where not* your settings. As said already, and above, you relied on upstream choice, which took another direction with 4.11. Users/administrator settings belong to dot files and /etc, and those where not changed, no?