From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Initial splash screen Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:57:01 +0200 Message-ID: <85ejk2hg76.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <4679F561.4030600@hacksaw.org> <87d4zomyiw.fsf@red-bean.com> <87fy4kjy0k.fsf@red-bean.com> <467AF6CC.2000300@gnu.org> <86ejk4jtno.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87ir9g70eo.fsf_-_@escher.local.home> <467C4900.6050705@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182610644 4077 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2007 14:57:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:57:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen.Berman@gmx.net, "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 23 16:57:21 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 1I2738-0004UL-1L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:57:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2737-0005Pr-Fe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:57:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2733-0005NO-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:57:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2731-0005IJ-Nu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:57:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2731-0005Hl-Hv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:57:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.43]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I272y-0002eF-GO; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.13]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A75344149; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:57:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.43]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082E313EAFD; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:57:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-023-003.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.23.3]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D37312761; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:57:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id C92CF1C3EE46; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:57:01 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat\, 23 Jun 2007 09\:19\:35 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.90.3/3507/Sat Jun 23 13:32:09 2007 on mail-in-03.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:73709 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > 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". > > MAYBE that would lead to good results, if it leads people to read > the splash screen more. In my experience, it usually leads to people turning off the nag screen. For the use case of "emacs filename", I really think we should default to just (message "The menu \"Help/About Emacs\" points out some help sources.") It does not keep people from working on files. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum