Re: Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea)

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     This may have been suggested before (I haven't searched the archives
>     for it), but since the issue has been raised again, what about this:
>     show the splash screen the first time the user invokes Emacs (even
>     with a file name) and ask whether to show it on the next invocation.
> 
> I won't reject this, but I am not sure if it is really more
> convenient.  To have to answer the question may be more inconvenient
> than to be shown the splash screen.  People will say "turn it off"
> because they don't want to be asked the question, not because of the
> splash screen itself.

The normal way to ask such questions in most GUI apps is to have three 
alternatives, were the third alternative is just "Do not ask me again".