From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Phil Sung <psung@MIT.EDU>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guided tour suggestions
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:20:31 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18051.28495.761758.288770@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874pksef39.fsf@phil.mit.edu>
> > Would it be possible to make the screenshots with emacs -Q so that people
> > see what they get out of the box ... ?
>
> Good idea.
>
> > The guided tour ... shows an Emacs a) compiled without a modern toolkit
> > (Gtk+, Windows or Mac) b) without menus c) without toolbars d) without
> > scrollbars (for heaven's sake!) e) without font diversity. The only thing
> > hinting at fonts is a man-page f) without file dialogs g) without tooltips h)
> > without any non-ASCII character
>
> When I get a chance, I will make some screenshots with the default UI setup,
> and with more complex formatting/characters.
Remember, however, that GTK is _not_ the default toolkit for Emacs 22.1 so that
won't be what people see out of the box. Currently it won't be the default for
Emacs 22.2 either.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-28 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-03 18:03 guided tour suggestions Karl Berry
2007-05-03 20:34 ` Phil Sung
2007-06-02 20:52 ` Chong Yidong
2007-06-02 21:04 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-02 22:08 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-03 8:23 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-06-03 15:32 ` David House
2007-06-11 20:01 ` Phil Sung
2007-06-11 20:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-27 1:16 ` Phil Sung
2007-06-27 4:28 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-27 5:45 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27 6:04 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-27 7:37 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 7:02 ` Phil Sung
2007-06-28 7:20 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28 9:54 ` David House
2007-06-28 10:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-09 7:15 ` Phil Sung
2007-08-09 7:36 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-13 8:09 ` Phil Sung
2007-06-28 8:20 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2007-06-28 8:36 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-29 16:41 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-30 1:16 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-30 10:03 ` David House
2007-07-22 10:59 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-05-03 22:30 ` David Koppelman
2007-05-03 22:41 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-05-04 5:09 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-05-04 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-05 14:39 ` Randal L. Schwartz
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