From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom fileshouldaskforconfirmation Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:35:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <00e301c509c1$9c761690$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <200502160037.j1G0bEX11788@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108640375 21043 80.91.229.2 (17 Feb 2005 11:39:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:39:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: abraham@dina.kvl.dk, lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk, snogglethorpe@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 17 12:39:34 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1k0G-00029e-Di for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:39:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1kGN-0007ck-2y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1jMG-0000G5-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:58:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1jIq-0008UA-Dk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:54:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1jIi-0008Si-Sp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:54:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D1j4o-0004fJ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:40:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1D1j0U-0006xp-Vy; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:35:39 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200502160037.j1G0bEX11788@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:37:15 -0600 (CST)) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33570 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33570 I like the _current_ Custom interface. I believe that its _general design_, including the button structure, is hard to improve on. I can't argue with your taste, but there seems to be a lot of indication that it is too complex and hard to understand for beginners.