I notice that one of the functions I can make a keyboard shortcut for in KDE is Log Out Without Confirmation. This might show a lack of imagination, but when might I want to do that?

I think a lot of folks don't want an extra popup or warning asking them if the really really wanted to do the thing they just selected to do. I for one hate it when I select to shutdown, reboot, or logout, and it pops up with another dialogue asking me to confirm that. Yes. I wouldn't have just chosen to do so if I didn't want it, and it I screwed up and really didn't mean to, poor me.

Same thing with the trash dialogue. Do you I really want to delete that? Yes. That's why I hit the delete button. Stop trying to protect me from myself.

Which is why most of the time I shutdown/reboot and delete files from the terminal.

Sit behind a Windows Vista machine for half an hour. Then you'll know why the KDE folks made this an option.

(Hmmm... wonder if they will remove these options in one of the future versions of KDE4. Until now the developers have done a good job to imitate Vista as much as possible)

jlinkels

That attitude is probably the main reason I disliked Macintoshes, at least until I realized that modern Windows operating systems try to behave the same way. I found the principle of the Trash Can annoying, because it seems to inherently assume the user is stupid.