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 17:50:29 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87tzqv1sui.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87zm18v7ug.fsf@jurta.org> <85abt7kck1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87hcndc3zc.fsf@jurta.org> <87643pbqjq.fsf@jurta.org> <85643ppor9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87sl6sbjaw.fsf@jurta.org> <87fy2oms2y.fsf@jurta.org> <85sl6o3rj1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <873aykml2v.fsf@jurta.org> <87bqd744yp.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187535121 27513 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2007 14:52:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:52:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 19 16:51:59 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 1IMm8C-0001of-GE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:51:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMm8C-00007A-42 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:51:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMm88-00006H-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:51:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMm85-0008US-Sg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:51:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMm85-0008UN-Q9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:51:49 -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 1IMm84-0002aQ-2R; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:51:48 -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 1IMm80-000Faj-UG; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:51:45 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Fri\, 17 Aug 2007 19\:32\:10 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: c2436a487120708c9e0f2b31fdd4cc45 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:76751 Archived-At: >> I would be glad to find a better way, but I don't want to change >> to something worse. > > 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. This image is too nice to get rid of it :-) And there is also a link to http://www.gnu.org/ on this image. I propose to change this link to http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/. In this case, we could remove the link to http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ from the startup screen, because the first link on the Emacs home page is the link to Emacs Guided Tour, so everyone visiting http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ will see the link to Emacs Guided Tour. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/