From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:11:12 +0200 Message-ID: <467C4900.6050705@gmail.com> References: <4679F561.4030600@hacksaw.org> <87d4zomyiw.fsf@red-bean.com> <87fy4kjy0k.fsf@red-bean.com> <467AF6CC.2000300@gnu.org> <86ejk4jtno.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87ir9g70eo.fsf_-_@escher.local.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182550287 20266 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2007 22:11:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:11:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Berman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 23 00:11:25 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 1I1rLd-0001QT-Ed for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:11:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1rLc-0002oK-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:11:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1rLY-0002kW-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1rLX-0002kG-4S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1rLW-0002kD-Vg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:11:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1rLW-0002IK-0F; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:11:14 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-133-189.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.133.189]:64963 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1I1rLU-0008Fl-75; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:11:12 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070604 Thunderbird/2.0.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000751-3, 2007-06-22), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.133.189 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1I1rLU-0008Fl-75. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1I1rLU-0008Fl-75 a38c72bbdeb08ec4a8dd2913cf5bc368 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:73669 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > This may have been suggested before (I haven't searched the archives > for it), but since the issue has been raised again, what about this: > show the splash screen the first time the user invokes Emacs (even > with a file name) and ask whether to show it on the next invocation. > > I won't reject this, but I am not sure if it is really more > convenient. To have to answer the question may be more inconvenient > than to be shown the splash screen. People will say "turn it off" > because they don't want to be asked the question, not because of the > splash screen itself. The normal way to ask such questions in most GUI apps is to have three alternatives, were the third alternative is just "Do not ask me again".