From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: fancy splash screen Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:45:16 +0200 Message-ID: <4509169C.1060503@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158223778 32228 80.91.229.2 (14 Sep 2006 08:49:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:49:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 14 10:49:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNmuH-0002dt-SM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:49:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNmuH-0006l7-FI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:49:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNmrE-0004eh-LY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNmrC-0004bv-KB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:46:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNmrC-0004bh-Eo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GNmt6-0007S6-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:48:00 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2006 08:46:01 -0000 Original-Received: from N742P008.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.36.168]) [62.47.36.168] by mail.gmx.net (mp018) with SMTP; 14 Sep 2006 10:46:01 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en Original-To: emacs-devel X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 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:59827 Archived-At: Thanks for making the fancy splash screen persistent for copying. I noticed a couple of minor issues: (1) The line "You can do basic editing with the menu bar and scroll bar using the mouse." occurs twice. That seems unprofessional. (2) The items below do not line up well with proportional font. I'd use Important Help menu items: Emacs Tutorial Learn how to use Emacs efficiently (Einführung in Emacs) Emacs FAQ Frequently asked questions and answers (Non)Warranty GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY Get New Versions How to obtain the latest version of Emacs Copying Conditions Conditions for redistributing and changing Emacs Read the Emacs Manual View the Emacs manual using Info More Manuals / Ordering Manuals Buying printed manuals from the FSF instead (replacing "Getting ..." by "Get ..." in the Help menu as well). (3) I'd interchange the following two lines Exit Emacs (Or type Control-x followed by Control-c) Recover Crashed Session Recover files you were editing before a crash while trying to combine the "Recover ..." line with the closing "If an Emacs session crashed recently, type M-x recover-session RET to recover the files you were editing." provided the auto-save-list directory exists, and write Meta-x instead of M-x. (4) On my system the Copyright Notice is hardly visible. The :height 0.5 option scales very badly and should be removed. (5) The text of `fancy-splash-help-echo' should appear permanently on the splash screen and not annoyingly pop up via tooltips (which on some systems might not even be present). This holds for the help-echo on the image as well.