From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:48:25 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87lkc7wh3q.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87fy2oms2y.fsf@jurta.org> <85sl6o3rj1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <873aykml2v.fsf@jurta.org> <87bqd744yp.fsf@jurta.org> <7dbe73ed0708190830r22e7595dh83314f3b71125cae@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187546218 27932 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2007 17:56:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Mathias Dahl" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 19 19:56:56 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 1IMp1A-00028R-Of for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:56:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMp19-0008OE-NE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:56:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMp0W-0007yT-UI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:56:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMp0V-0007wQ-Ua for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:56:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMp0V-0007w6-N9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:56:11 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMp0S-000850-E8; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:56:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IMp0N-000OP9-Tg; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:56:06 +0300 In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0708190830r22e7595dh83314f3b71125cae@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Sun\, 19 Aug 2007 17\:30\:36 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 068dd79c68aafbc760c35e97c5d420ed X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1390 [August 17 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:76767 Archived-At: >> Get rid of the image. Or, display the image once only for ~ two >> seconds on its own, then switch to a static splash screen with just >> text. It would still be fancy in terms of fonts and colours. > > I agree with this. The image is nice and all but it kinda draws away > the focus from the useful information, and it consumes much screen > space. Many popular applications have a project logo on the startup page, and there is no problem with this. > I like the way GNUS does it, displaying the image while it loads. Really what GNUS displays is the splash screen - an image that appears while a program is loading. Emacs doesn't display the splash screen while it is loading. It only displays the startup page. I'm not sure whether it's good to display an image while Emacs is loading. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/