From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Sainty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#56510: Make some games obsolete (or just remove them from the menu) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 20:27:44 +1200 Message-ID: <5dfaa366be4768e47f5d36bf89c4ec02@webmail.orcon.net.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35351"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Orcon Webmail Cc: 56510@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 12 10:50:53 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oBBbZ-00095C-GS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:50:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57204 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oBBbX-0002hF-NG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:50:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50466) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oBBFS-0006Fg-C7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47697) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oBBFS-0005lf-2m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oBBFR-0006Rq-T6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:28:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Phil Sainty Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 08:28:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 56510 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 56510-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B56510.165761446924764 (code B ref 56510); Tue, 12 Jul 2022 08:28:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 56510) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Jul 2022 08:27:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41594 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oBBFF-0006RM-1x for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:27:49 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-2.orcon.net.nz ([60.234.4.43]:44155) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oBBFC-0006RD-KG for 56510@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:27:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.253.37.70] (port=43614 helo=webmail.orcon.net.nz) by smtp-2.orcon.net.nz with esmtpa (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oBBFA-0001Pg-Fm; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 20:27:44 +1200 Original-Received: from ip-116-251-140-135.kinect.net.nz ([116.251.140.135]) via [10.253.37.253] by webmail.orcon.net.nz with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Tue, 12 Jul 2022 20:27:44 +1200 In-Reply-To: X-Sender: psainty@orcon.net.nz X-GeoIP: -- X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_bar: -- X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:236751 Archived-At: On 2022-07-12 15:06, Stefan Kangas wrote: > Some of the games in Emacs look a bit dated. I put it to you that they > are not excellent promotion for Emacs, and that we are better served by > having fewer but better games. Why do they need to be "an excellent promotion for Emacs" as opposed to "games you can play"? And I put it to you that most of Emacs looks "a bit dated" to most people (at least by default). I don't understand why we'd remove any working games from the games menu. It's not as if there are so many of them that people are lost for choice. -Phil