From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes for emacs 28 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:13:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y2lkb6kb.fsf@gmail.com> <9A4FA038-CCFD-45DF-8B57-E348AFF951D9@gmail.com> <87sgbsb0eb.fsf@gmail.com> <87h7s6c31d.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20857"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ghe@sdf.org, casouri@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: TEC Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 11 06:15:50 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaTW-0005Ks-8q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 06:15:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38958 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaTV-0002w9-AW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:15:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaRk-00086V-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46393) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaRk-00012P-4W; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaRi-000440-FZ; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:13:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h7s6c31d.fsf@gmail.com> (message from TEC on Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:45:18 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:255079 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > This is a tricky thing. You see, I don't think it's inherently bad. > However, for me at least, most of the editors I've used have had a good > degree of 'visual polish' and 'modern snazziness' that Vanilla Emacs > currently lacks. I have no idea what looks "good" or "bad" in a splash screen; it never occurs to me to judge such a question. Do you have any idea where to get objective advice about what users will judge as "good"? It might be easy to implement such advice if we had it. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)