From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, thibaut.verron@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
nicolas.rougier@inria.fr, eliz@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: splash-screen
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 10:23:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kMXa3-0004qP-EW@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a42dae1-6650-c658-5f2d-58c31d916d80@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:03:08 +0300)
> On my system, latest versions of GDB, GCC, and Binutils programs all
> show this in their "--version" output, which is the equivalent of the
> Emacs splash screen (since Emacs is primarily an interactive GUI/TUI
> program, not a console application).
I would argue that "--version" corresponds to our "About" screen. As it
is also for most other graphical applications. Many of them don't have
any splash screen to begin with.
Our splash screen should be more comparable to launching GCC or GDB with
no arguments. When one does that, GDB does print the "NO WARRANTY"
message, and GCC does not.
Because GDB is an interactive program, and GCC is not. Our practise
is to have the no warranty screen display in --version output, and if
the program is interactive when that starts.
I'll submit a patch for the GNU Coding standards to amend so that
interactive programs are explicitly mentioned. Seeing we already do
this for such cases, it would be mostly documenting existing practise.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-27 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-20 8:35 [ELPA] New package: splash-screen Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 11:24 ` Colin Baxter
2020-09-20 12:36 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 13:34 ` Colin Baxter
2020-09-20 13:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-20 14:50 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 17:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-20 20:33 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 22:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-21 3:50 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-21 5:47 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-21 6:06 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-21 11:09 ` Philip K.
2020-09-21 11:42 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-21 15:24 ` Philip K.
2020-09-21 16:40 ` Philip K.
2020-09-21 17:22 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-21 11:53 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-21 12:29 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-21 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-21 13:45 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-20 19:20 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-20 20:53 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-20 19:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-21 3:49 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-22 12:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-23 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-23 3:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-23 8:03 ` Mathias Dahl
2020-09-24 1:31 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-24 6:17 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-25 4:39 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-23 12:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-23 16:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-23 16:36 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-24 1:32 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-24 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-24 13:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-25 4:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-25 10:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-25 11:26 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-26 4:37 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-26 13:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27 2:43 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-27 8:54 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 9:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 9:56 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 10:34 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 10:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 11:24 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 11:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-27 13:32 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-27 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28 3:43 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-28 11:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-28 14:02 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-26 8:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-26 9:45 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-26 9:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-26 14:34 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-27 2:45 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-27 8:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-27 8:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-27 8:56 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-27 9:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-27 10:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-09-27 10:42 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-27 14:03 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-28 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-28 6:29 ` Nicolas P. Rougier
2020-09-29 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-27 14:23 ` Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]
2020-09-27 16:20 ` Stefan Monnier
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