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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>, 4960@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4960: 23.1.50; Please provide access to the tour on the Help  menu; preferably ship it also
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:28:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d07r7c4m.fsf@stefankangas.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ws1lzksg.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:32:07 +0200")

Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:

>>> Previous discussion:
>>>
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-11/msg00120.html
>>
>> There seemed to be a consensus to change part of the Help menu the way
>> Drew suggested:
>>
>>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-11/msg00158.html
>>
>> Though Stefan and someone else thought that a menu item that opened
>> something in a web browser felt a bit wrong. I never understood why.
>> Is not that very common?
>>
>> I suggest we change the Help menu as discussed there.
>
> The Web Guided Tour is an advertisement of Emacs features.
> It doesn't provide any help.  So the "Help" menu is not appropriate.
> We could create a new menu "Ads" ;-)

I think this is the correct conclusion.  Does anyone object to closing
this bug?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas





  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-28 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-19  3:15 bug#4960: 23.1.50; Please provide access to the tour on the Help menu; preferably ship it also Jason A. Spiro
2009-11-19  8:03 ` Glenn Morris
2009-11-19 12:27   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-19 13:34     ` Joel J. Adamson
2009-11-19 14:06       ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-20  9:32     ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-20 10:53       ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-11-20 11:14         ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-20 12:06       ` Lennart Borgman
2020-04-28 17:28       ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-05-12 14:58         ` Stefan Kangas
2009-11-19 13:35 ` Joel J. Adamson
2009-11-19 14:08   ` Lennart Borgman

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