From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Bastien Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA package discoverability Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 18:16:03 +0200 Organization: GNU Message-ID: <871rn9l35o.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="49912"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 24 18:16:56 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 1jctJ1-000CxP-A5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 May 2020 18:16:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51632 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jctJ0-0004DM-AO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 May 2020 12:16:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51520) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jctIR-0003m7-Q2 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 May 2020 12:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34104) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jctIR-0001tk-Hx for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 May 2020 12:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [2a01:e35:2fe1:f780:2939:a52d:aaf4:24e5] (port=53740 helo=guerry) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jctID-0001vO-QN; Sun, 24 May 2020 12:16:10 -0400 Original-Received: by guerry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 90AA91A605CD; Sun, 24 May 2020 18:16:03 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <83d06txuv4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 24 May 2020 17:36:47 +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:251323 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Bastien >> Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 09:34:14 +0200 >> Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> I think advertizing GNU ELPA on the Emacs splash screen would be a >> good first step. > > Any practical suggestions for how to do that in the little screen > estate we have there? I attach a patch against lisp/startup.el. I don't really know how "little" is the screen estate in other configurations, so perhaps this suggestion is not okay, but it fits quite well here. -- Bastien --=-=-= Content-Type: text/x-diff Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=startup.el.patch 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)) --=-=-=--