From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 56510@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56510: Make some games obsolete (or just remove them from the menu)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:54:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmknD8Cv2DHZ9aVcpYQXGgWc1=MgFY7n=TgLHK92++2hCg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5dfaa366be4768e47f5d36bf89c4ec02@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (Phil Sainty's message of "Tue, 12 Jul 2022 20:27:44 +1200")
Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:
> 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"?
I was trying to be polite, sorry. Let me put it a bit more bluntly:
they make Emacs look scruffy and antiquated, and should much sooner be
hidden than actively promoted.
> And I put it to you that most of Emacs looks "a bit dated" to most
> people (at least by default).
Indeed. We can and should improve that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-12 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-12 3:06 bug#56510: Make some games obsolete (or just remove them from the menu) Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 3:45 ` Visuwesh
2022-07-12 8:27 ` Phil Sainty
2022-07-12 9:54 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-07-12 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 13:29 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-12 15:13 ` Drew Adams
2022-07-12 15:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 16:23 ` Drew Adams
2022-07-13 3:18 ` Richard Stallman
2022-07-13 16:47 ` Drew Adams
2022-07-13 22:58 ` Jean Louis
2022-07-15 3:34 ` Richard Stallman
2022-07-12 13:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-12 14:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 14:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 13:26 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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