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From: "Nicolas P. Rougier" <nicolas.rougier@inria.fr>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: splash-screen
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 16:50:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wo0o5wog.fsf@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsgbc7gmb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>


>> - Modeline is hidden
> I think I'm OK with it, but this is slightly dangerous, in case 
> this
> splashscreen ever gets displayed when there's more than 1 window 
> in the
> frame, in which case the resulting display could be confusing 
> because
> there could two windows without any visual separation between 
> them.
> If we can avoid that corner case, I'm fine with it.

Good point, I need to think how to cope with that case. My initial 
idea was to show this splash screen only at startup and if there's 
nothing else to show (a file argument would prohibit the display 
of the splash screen, I've just modified the code to do that, but 
not the two windows case).

> I like the minimal design, yet I can't help wanting to put more:
>
> - While it technically does say "Free Software" it only does 
> that within
>   the copyright statement.  So, maybe we should have something 
>   like
>
>     > |           GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY 
>     > |
>     > |  Look ma!  No license agreement!  This is truly Free 
>     > Software  |
>     > |         Copyleft (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 
>     > |
>
>   And various parts of that text would be hyperlinks.

For purely aesthetic reasons, I would prefer to stick with no link 
on the bottom part. Also, I'm not sure to understand the 
"copyleft" you mention. I took the two lines at the bottom from 
the "about-emacs" startup screen.

> - We currently have a "GNU/Linux" hyperlink which it would be 
> good to preserve
>   within the last 2-3 lines.

I'm not sure what your refer to (I don't see such link on the 
default startup page).

> - I think many first time users may not want "help" at first, so 
> maybe
>   beside "help" we should advertize a "config wizard" or a 
>   "choose your
>   favorite UI" which would get them to some simple customization 
>   page,
>   where I'd expect choices like "traditional Emacs UI" or 
>   "emulate
>   system UI".

Currently, the "C-h" redirects to the about-emacs where a new user 
would find supplementary information (as he currently does).


Nicolas



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-20 14:50 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 [this message]
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
2020-09-27 16:20                 ` Stefan Monnier

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