From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New start up splash screen annoyance... Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:39:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <40533.128.165.123.18.1190302782.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: <85d4wh3kf9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <851wcw1qht.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <871wctziwv.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk> Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190302815 401 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2007 15:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:40:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: "dhruva" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 20 17:40:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IYO8L-0006dt-FC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:40:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IYO8J-0001ZR-DB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:40:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYO8F-0001Xv-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:39:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYO8B-0001UT-Iy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:39:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IYO8B-0001UC-DE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IYO8A-0002Le-U3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by mailwasher.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.6/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l8KFdkJv006513; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:39:46 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l8KFdgug032307; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:39:42 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l8KFdggY005537; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:39:42 -0600 Original-Received: (from apache@localhost) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l8KFdgGk005534; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:39:42 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: webmail1.lanl.gov: apache set sender to herring@lanl.gov using -f Original-Received: from 128.165.123.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:39:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-6.el3.2lanl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: herring@lanl.gov X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:79372 Archived-At: > I have another idea (might be considered crazy...) Is it possible to > have something like a screen saver. On some duration of inactivity, > bring up a buffer with all the required information. When there is > mouse/keyboard activity, restore the previous active buffer. In this > way, we make the information visible in a rather non intrusive manner. It could be a new zone mode: zone-gradually-replace-text-with-emacs-splash-screen And users would have to sit through most of the transformation before they could reliably read the instruction to dismiss it with M-x zone-leave-me-alone... it's perfect! Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.