From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible change to startup.el
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:10:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5hdj4ln84.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DDTqo-0007eq-P8@mail.agora-net.com> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:50:14 -0500")
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> writes:
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:44:37 +0100
>
> ! Emacs Tutorial Learn-by-doing tutorial (in many languages)
> ! for using Emacs efficiently.
>
> how about:
>
> Emacs Tutorial: bg, cn, cs, de, en, es, fr, it, ja, ko, nl, pl, pt_BR,
> ro, ru, sk, sl, sv, th, zh
>
> this is explicit, does not require understanding "in many
> languages", and can be machine maintained, in addition to taking two
> lines. i'm sure someone will find a way to work animated flag
> images and clickable widgets into this idea, that's the problem w/
> creative programmers...
I am afraid that the character version is not going to appeal to the
non-geek who probably never has heard of things like "sk". However,
the clickable widget idea has merit, a tooltip with the full language
name would help quite a bit, and the flag idea definitely is a very
good idea: it is an eye-catcher, and usually pretty moron-accessible.
Giving the tutorial a non-textual click&drool appeal and associative
value might really be what is needed to get people to click there.
So where do we get copyright-free flag icons? If they are the
official design, they should usually not be copyrightable in the first
place, I'd guess.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-21 18:44 Possible change to startup.el David Kastrup
2005-03-21 20:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-21 21:10 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-03-21 21:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-21 22:14 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 0:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-22 1:38 ` David Hansen
2005-03-23 18:25 ` James Cloos
2005-03-27 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 4:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-22 6:24 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-22 8:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-03-22 8:27 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-22 10:40 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 12:44 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-22 20:31 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-03-22 11:23 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-03-22 12:33 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-22 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-22 10:18 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-22 22:24 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 20:44 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 22:32 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-23 6:21 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-23 13:55 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-23 18:01 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-03-25 12:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-03-23 20:25 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 13:57 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-24 10:49 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-24 19:05 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-25 6:43 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-25 18:07 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-27 3:52 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-27 23:15 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-28 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-29 20:19 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-30 4:08 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-03-30 9:42 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-30 22:47 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-30 23:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-01 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-31 1:40 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 1:02 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-03-31 3:20 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 2:21 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-03-31 6:59 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-01 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-31 11:37 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 12:05 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 13:32 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 14:29 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 16:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 22:23 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-01 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-31 12:01 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 12:59 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-31 13:43 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-31 22:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-01 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-01 4:03 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-03 5:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-03 10:31 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-04-07 6:55 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-08 3:22 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-08 6:31 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-04-08 7:27 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-04-08 18:32 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-08 18:43 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-04-10 1:54 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-08 10:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-08 18:32 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-09 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-13 23:58 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-14 4:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-14 9:46 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-15 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-14 19:03 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-14 23:40 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-17 1:49 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-17 9:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-17 19:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-17 19:51 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-10 1:54 ` Richard Stallman
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