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: GNU ELPA package discoverability Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 19:38:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83tv05waob.fsf@gnu.org> References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <4e937898-ae46-710a-cbca-e452a1156fa1@yandex.ru> <2e630dc7-ba1d-e4c9-74b3-4da976db1e82@yandex.ru> <87imglg51l.fsf@gnu.org> <83d06txuv4.fsf@gnu.org> <871rn9l35o.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="11123"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bastien Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 24 18:38:50 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 1jcteB-0002n2-J0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 May 2020 18:38:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40410 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jcteA-0005Oe-Ky for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 May 2020 12:38:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53292) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jctda-0004yV-6P for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 May 2020 12:38:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34350) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jctdZ-0005Ap-O9 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 May 2020 12:38:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4457 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jctdS-0005yI-2e; Sun, 24 May 2020 12:38:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <871rn9l35o.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Bastien on Sun, 24 May 2020 18:16:03 +0200) 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:251325 Archived-At: > From: Bastien > Cc: rms@gnu.org, Emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 18:16:03 +0200 > > diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el > index bff10003f8..2db774a4e1 100644 > --- a/lisp/startup.el > +++ b/lisp/startup.el > @@ -1601,6 +1601,8 @@ fancy-startup-text > "\tOverview of Emacs features at gnu.org\n" > :link ("View Emacs Manual" ,(lambda (_button) (info-emacs-manual))) > "\tView the Emacs manual using Info\n" > + :link ("Install Emacs packages" ,(lambda (_button) (list-packages))) > + "\tBrowse the Emacs Lisp Package Archive\n" > :link ("Absence of Warranty" ,(lambda (_button) (describe-no-warranty))) > "\tGNU Emacs comes with " > :face (variable-pitch (:slant oblique)) Thanks, this will need an extra line. Perhaps we should delete the empty line below the image which we display at the beginning of the splash screen. Another question is whether installing extra packages is indeed something to be shown on the splash screen, i.e. a newbie will see it as long as he/she doesn't disable it.