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: The splash screens Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:03:05 +0200 Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0708210203u3176f304ofd29cf8a9636aed9@mail.gmail.com> References: <7dbe73ed0708170358u3779fcebj2be02c03ebf1ac55@mail.gmail.com> <7dbe73ed0708200123q502ca1b5k6392a5b0b8e6c792@mail.gmail.com> <87odh1250i.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 1187687072 23342 80.91.229.12 (21 Aug 2007 09:04:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:04:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juri Linkov" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 21 11:04:29 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 1INPdu-0000U6-R3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:03:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INPdu-0000mh-Cs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:03:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INPdo-0000j4-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:03:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INPdl-0000cq-34 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:03:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INPdk-0000cb-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:03:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.184]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1INPdj-0000po-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:03:08 -0400 Original-Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c27so1108830rvf for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:03:05 -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=SttZ6WiL0s8qLCasoZqIRI1wEJFOf7vMdmvB2Q2fiNB9/9IDoYATD2eyRRvS7pLhiiAIiBzM6RI5ZXTdXkyHtkuFCWhJAXKQlYmrQbxGfv6uu+Rm0fJpi5uaoa57/dObQcKoZgQADQ8GLtx+o/1GNv9vazxwlHsR8xzwOmfmPJA= 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=KlP8Og0sjS7iHtCM1629tOIFDhbveMmEFERA7vPjRHO35IOK9zZS30p9X+R3fUT5cZIitrnN2lAgGo7GVKkNsTSZtxLSKsc1d2K2FK9xLxt+1gmUUZLiqUnJH7Odow5w0V6/tGiFfXGYpxCbjrH6TsMo2vE/EqiN0HViarZ9qgg= Original-Received: by 10.141.116.16 with SMTP id t16mr3234305rvm.1187686985603; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.141.172.10 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:03:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87odh1250i.fsf@jurta.org> 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:76873 Archived-At: > > (*btw, on my system, there seem to be a TAB character too much on the > > last two lines above, the descriptions are not lined up well) > > This depends on the font size. I fixed this by changing tabs to one tab, and > setting tab-width to 22. Now descriptions are lined up regardless of font size. Much better, thanks! > > Useful File menu items: (*do we need this section at all?) > > No more. Thanks, looks cleaner now. > Maybe instead of splitting the section "Important Help menu items", > we should move it completely to after the section "Useful tasks"? > The reason is that it would be more easy to reach the useful tasks > by pressing TAB (less keystrokes). I think that would work. And with the new and simpler layout the user will see the heading of this "help" section plus some (I see all, but that might depend on the font) of the options, which means he won't need to scoll down to see it.