From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: site-start.el: inhibit-startup-screen? Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 19:52:23 +0200 Message-ID: <20100523175223.GA13242@tomas> References: <5FF50F23-9E80-484C-A02E-354AB92F7701@nf.mpg.de> <3199.1274382280@chondestes.bio.unc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274636665 12507 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2010 17:44:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 17:44:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Joel J. Adamson" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 23 19:44:22 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGFDp-0002HC-RW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 19:44:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36480 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGFDo-0006En-JZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 13:44:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49528 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGFCZ-0005yu-7I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 13:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGFCX-0006vY-SV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 13:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:43363 helo=www.elogos.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGFCX-0006vK-Nf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 13:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5790B9004D; Sun, 23 May 2010 19:52:23 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3199.1274382280@chondestes.bio.unc.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73742 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 03:04:40PM -0400, Joel J. Adamson wrote: [...] > Just curious: Why do so many people loathe the splash screen? Why is i= t > controversial? Hi, Joel, not in this discussion, but since you asked generally I feel addressed: I do hate splash-screens with passion. I can't stand programs forcefully "treating" me to such a thing: when I invoke a program, I have something I want to do. The splash screen is (to me) very disrupting in this flow. On the plus side, there's nothing (after the first few invocations of the program, at least). I'b being re-told innumerable times things I already know (or can easily look up in the docs). The worst species are those programs that try to hide that they are slow and bloated with a little ad show. I don't use those unless I really must. Regards - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFL+WtXBcgs9XrR2kYRAtXVAJ93OzSLprG34Q536i/ZtUXWOw38xQCfSbp0 mS7ZR73FhGbmCM6PDoYA9nQ=3D =3DV+Hb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----