Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> > We have previously discussed extending the concept of a "theme", which
>> > is currently basically just visual.  I think the way forward here is to
>> > allow people to create opinionated views on how Emacs should work (from
>> > keystrokes on up to basically...  anything), and include these in Emacs.
>> >
>> > New users, when starting Emacs, would then be able to choose between,
>> > say, five of these mega-themes on the start-up screen by just clicking
>> > them.
>>
>> Sure, SGTM.  I hope such themes will be developed and added to Emacs.
>> That's one way of having several opt-in changes in behavior that can
>> be turned on and off with a single command.
>
> I agree.  I have proposed to name such themes "profiles" in the past, see e.g.:
>
>     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-04/msg02032.html

Hi all,

I'm not sure if this is of interest but I just thought I'd throw this
into the discussion:
https://blog.polaris64.net/post/could-emacs-have-a-set-up-wizard/.

I thought about a "wizard" which would help newcomers to choose from a
set of profiles in a simple manner, and this blog post details a little
proof-of-concept I came up with. The idea was that it would keep out of
the way as much as possible so that existing users could easily ignore
it or disable the entry on the splash screen if necessary, however it
would still be prominent enough for newcomers to see it.

Best regards,
Simon