From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: fancy-splash-screen customize group... Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:04:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200512072349.jB7Nn5fB031485@brains.moreideas.ca> <878xuwwdp4.fsf@jurta.org> <200512080230.jB82U8003974@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87hd9j42g3.fsf@jurta.org> <200512090057.jB90vUp11257@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <4398D907.10200@student.lu.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134153463 9904 80.91.229.2 (9 Dec 2005 18:37:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:37:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 09 19:37:41 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ekn4V-0003Uq-0N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:34:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ekn4q-0007KS-0q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:34:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ekjom-00049f-Qd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:05:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ekjol-00048U-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:05:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ekjok-00047f-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:05:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ekjpx-0002aa-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:07:05 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Ekjna-00037F-Cr; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:04:38 -0500 Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-reply-to: <4398D907.10200@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:08:23 +0100) 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:47318 Archived-At: >They were not _deliberately_ left in a non-working state for years. >Nobody knew that they were in a non-working state, because nobody >apparently ever clicked on them for years. > > I doubt that nobody clicked on them. Could it not be that our feedback mechanisms are a bit too weak to catch things like this? A beginner could click those without understanding what was happening and without understanding how to ask. If you (plural) want to argue about this, would you please take it off the list, so that it stops being a distraction? This argument is not going to affect my decisions; I can't even spare the time to read it all.