From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: splash-screen Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:53:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38103"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Nicolas P. Rougier" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 21 13:57:59 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 1kKKSE-0009od-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 13:57:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41420 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKKSD-0000N4-Ta for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47728) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKKNW-00041D-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:53:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54757) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKKNT-0003d3-Lm; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:53:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kKKNT-00070Q-8q; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:53:03 -0400 In-reply-to: (nicolas.rougier@inria.fr) 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:256282 Archived-At: I really want to like this, it looks nice -- though I miss the graphics. But it is lacking the usefulness, and direction of the original. A new user would be totally lost as to what one would do, reminiscant of the way vi starts up with nothing other than beeps. Also, where would the information about recovering files be shown? What about do you think about this? While I think the visit new file "link" is useful, I think it would be good to keep the menu bar shown when the splash screen is shown, since most users would be familiar with the File menu and want to open a file that way. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ GNU Emacs 26.3 is free software and part of the GNU operating system Tutorial Manual If an Emacs session crashed recently, type M-x recover-session RET to recover the files you were editing. GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+