From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Pierre Lecocq <pierre.lecocq@gmail.com>,
Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What would be the best screenshot of Emacs for the homepage?
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 00:21:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4d0bmh4.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87io44llid.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 2015-12-11, at 22:32, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>> I understand the idea to promote a FOSS enviromnent vs a proprietary
>> one,
>
> A free environment.
Isn't GNOME also open source? I thought "FOSS" means the conjunction of
both.
>> it would be better not to include the window bar in screenshots since
>> it is the way (a.k.a the "most used way") to identify the environment
>> (as in "OS" or "Window Manager").
>
> So? For one thing, the font rendering will equally well identify a
> platform. For another, why _wouldn't_ GNU Emacs promote GNU
> environments (GNUstep would be another candidate but it is less
> frequently used)? Other platforms are secondary considerations. Why
> shouldn't the first priority of a GNU component be GNU?
Also, the kind of user who might identify the environment as
a non-Windows one is probably the kind who uses GNU/Linux anyway. (I
would assume that most Windows users either woulnd't notice, or would
think that it is kind of a customized theme or something. I don't know
about MacOS users; they are a rare phenomenon, since MacOS is rather an
exotic choice.)
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-11 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-11 12:50 What would be the best screenshot of Emacs for the homepage? Nicolas Petton
2015-12-11 13:06 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-11 13:11 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-11 13:20 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-11 13:23 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-12-11 21:05 ` Pierre Lecocq
2015-12-11 21:32 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-11 23:21 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-12-12 5:03 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-12 5:03 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-11 22:35 ` Random832
2015-12-11 23:47 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-12-12 0:26 ` daniel sutton
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