From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improved welcome screen Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:19:59 +0300 Message-ID: <83pnbs2i1s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <863691n4xl.wl-me@enzu.ru> <86blno9yle.wl-me@enzu.ru> <87d0845msg.fsf@yahoo.com> <87h7xgjasw.fsf@yahoo.com> <875zdwjais.fsf@yahoo.com> <6a198677-41b6-4dbd-39d0-2b01550d53cf@yandex.ru> <875zdv9jf3.fsf@yahoo.com> <7AE22CF7-3A15-4F99-976F-970EF0C2F40F@traduction-libre.org> <2dfe6814-684c-eecc-0cea-9e373ce5c136@yandex.ru> <720fcfde-6b10-8960-8755-e61700adcebf@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="123061"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org, stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 28 09:24:53 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jTKbs-000VvO-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:24:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44496 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTKbr-00014r-UD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:24:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41862) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTKXW-0006EX-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:24:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53059) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTKXV-0006TD-Fk; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3411 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jTKXU-000221-PT; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 03:20:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <720fcfde-6b10-8960-8755-e61700adcebf@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 28 Apr 2020 05:49:33 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248001 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 05:49:33 +0300 > Cc: Jean-Christophe Helary , > Emacs developers > > > Or we could decide that the version information is not really needed > > at all for the purposes of this screen. I don't have a very strong > > opinion here except that I don't think it's ideal to advertise details > > like the cairo version at the very top of the screen (as before). > > Indeed, maybe not. If we are talking about the "About" screen (not the startup screen, as I initially assumed), then I think the version should be there: I'm yet to see a program which did NOT show its version in the About menu item. That's where people will look for it. It might even be the main reason people even look at the About screen.