From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mathias Dahl" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:30:36 +0200 Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0708190830r22e7595dh83314f3b71125cae@mail.gmail.com> References: <87fy2oms2y.fsf@jurta.org> <85sl6o3rj1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <873aykml2v.fsf@jurta.org> <87bqd744yp.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187537450 2021 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2007 15:30:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:30:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Glenn Morris" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 19 17:30:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IMmjk-0003f1-RS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:30:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMmjk-00079V-7G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:30:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMmjf-00074J-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:30:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMmje-00072U-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:30:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMmje-00072H-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:30:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.191]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMmje-0001KF-Gw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:30:38 -0400 Original-Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c27so762763rvf for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:30:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JW4sYe4+TC3z+zo+Ki8E5BNZiFrD2iC01D55OjrsAICXfVh8BMc8VHtKOyPfWLL8JZuCN/n23wuhLsGxLkj7nrQcur3YixLgMM0aC41LFRZsAba8cneNcK8/p+b98tWKKQC8hh3dkK6GKMmDzpTjt0EOueGFkaPZG530UCuMJHg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QDDn2RVrkd/I3zRO1Mz3RmeU+zrlpSJV9klIspaME+kttswGUBLUf9VY34eoquR1TUd9PMug/lAk3QC5f3OVL72JNgeE11Q3KFzJPNGW0kjbneNnDDiQzaICTlx5gIwDeN3VW6AG0H/qcfXYQh6smjwUFwMVJe0RQ1rKmO6Um9s= Original-Received: by 10.140.136.6 with SMTP id j6mr2183968rvd.1187537436486; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.141.172.10 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:30:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76756 Archived-At: > Get rid of the image. Or, display the image once only for ~ two > seconds on its own, then switch to a static splash screen with just > text. It would still be fancy in terms of fonts and colours. I agree with this. The image is nice and all but it kinda draws away the focus from the useful information, and it consumes much screen space. I like the way GNUS does it, displaying the image while it loads.