From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
Cc: 4960@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4960: 23.1.50; Please provide access to the tour on the Help menu; preferably ship it also
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:14:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6m1whdf.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <he5se6$6cs$1@ger.gmane.org> (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:53:01 -0700")
>> 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" ;-)
>>
>> BTW, I noticed that the About screen doesn't say that the link
>> will start the browser (like it says on the startup screen).
>> Here is a fix:
>>
>> Index: lisp/startup.el
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/startup.el,v
>> retrieving revision 1.550
>> diff -u -r1.550 startup.el
>> --- lisp/startup.el 6 Nov 2009 05:16:28 -0000 1.550
>> +++ lisp/startup.el 20 Nov 2009 09:31:21 -0000
>> @@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@
>> :link ("Emacs Guided Tour"
>> (lambda (button) (browse-url "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/"))
>> "Browse http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/")
>> - "\tSee an overview of the many facilities of GNU Emacs"
>> + "\tSee an overview of Emacs facilities at gnu.org"
>> ))
>> "A list of texts to show in the middle part of the About screen.
>> Each element in the list should be a list of strings or pairs
>
> Although I appreciate the connotation of "facilities", I think "features"
> would be better understood by curious new users.
I agree.
> And if you want to emphasize that the button is a link to the World Wide
> Web, why not "http://www.gnu.org" instead of just "gnu.org"?
"http://www.gnu.org" is more than twice longer than "gnu.org".
And if we write it as a full URL, it would be natural make it a link
as well, but we have the same link on the text "Emacs Guided Tour" already.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-20 11:14 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 [this message]
2009-11-20 12:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2020-04-28 17:28 ` Stefan Kangas
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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