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: The splash screens Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:32:14 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87odh1250i.fsf@jurta.org> References: <7dbe73ed0708170358u3779fcebj2be02c03ebf1ac55@mail.gmail.com> <7dbe73ed0708200123q502ca1b5k6392a5b0b8e6c792@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 1187653025 23395 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2007 23:37:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:37:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Mathias Dahl" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 21 01:37:02 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 1INGnt-0005wp-RS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:37:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INGnu-0003n4-Sr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INGmV-0002oR-HQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:35:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INGmU-0002mz-3y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INGmT-0002me-Qn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:35:33 -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 1INGmR-0001UF-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:35:31 -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 1INGmH-000PUG-Dz; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:35:29 +0300 In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0708200123q502ca1b5k6392a5b0b8e6c792@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Mon\, 20 Aug 2007 10\:23\:10 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 96b5a640d20a32298b7e0b1f479135d9 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 1391 [August 20 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:76865 Archived-At: > How about the following layout, my comments inside parentheses. This > is for the graphical splash screen: > > --- > [image, if people think it should be there] > > GNU Emacs is one component of the GNU/Linux operating system. > You can do basic editing with the menu bar and scroll bar using the mouse. > To quit a partially entered command, type Control-g. > > Important Help menu items: > Emacs Tutorial Learn how to use Emacs efficiently > Emacs FAQ Frequently asked questions and answers > View Emacs Manual View the Emacs manual using Info > Emacs Guided Tour See http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ (*has > to be added to the Help menu) I'm not sure whether it's good to start the browser from the Help menu. > (*btw, on my system, there seem to be a TAB character too much on the > last two lines above, the descriptions are not lined up well) This depends on the font size. I fixed this by changing tabs to one tab, and setting tab-width to 22. Now descriptions are lined up regardless of font size. > Useful tasks: > Visit New File Specify a new file's name, to edit the file > Open Home Directory Open your home directory, to operate on its files > Open *scratch* buffer Open buffer for notes you don't want to save > Customize Startup Change initialization settings including this screen > > Useful File menu items: (*do we need this section at all?) No more. > Exit Emacs (Or type Control-x followed by Control-c) > Recover Crashed Session Recover files you were editing before a crash > (*duplicate) > > Other > Absence of Warranty GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY > Copying Conditions Conditions for redistributing and changing Emacs > Getting New Versions How to obtain the latest version of Emacs > More Manuals / Ordering Manuals Buying printed manuals from the FSF Maybe instead of splitting the section "Important Help menu items", we should move it completely to after the section "Useful tasks"? The reason is that it would be more easy to reach the useful tasks by pressing TAB (less keystrokes). > This is GNU Emacs 22.1.50.19 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.3) > of 2007-08-17 on localhost > Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > If an Emacs session crashed recently, type Meta-x recover-session RET > to recover the files you were editing. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/