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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Initial splash screen
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:42:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85wsxvb29p.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wsxv621d.fsf@escher.local.home> (Stephen Berman's message of "Sat\, 23 Jun 2007 00\:46\:06 +0200")

Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> writes:

> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:53:29 -0400 Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> You may be right; I don't know.  But at least the question can force
> them to take notice of the splash screen.

There is a name for an interface forcibly stopping people from
starting to work before they have presumably perused something: it is
"nagware".  We should focus on making Emacs convenient for people, not
making people convenient for Emacs.  The latter does not work, anyway.

Personally, I'd use
(message "Check the \"Help/About Emacs\" menu entry for basic usage pointers.")
when Emacs is started with file names on the command line.

That does not interfere with work since the frame can already display
the final layout (apart from the message area).  And its message is
simple enough to remember the gist of what it was about.  You don't
have a chance to remember what the complex splash screen was about, in
contrast, when your priority was to get it out of your face and be
able to start working (and starting Emacs with file names very much
implies that you intend to start it for the purpose of doing some
work).

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-23  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 118+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-21  3:49 A wish, a plea Hacksaw
2007-06-21 18:50 ` Davis Herring
2007-06-21 18:57   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-21 19:12     ` Davis Herring
2007-06-22 16:24       ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 18:55 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-22  3:59   ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-21 19:07     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-21 19:17     ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-21 21:53       ` Frank Schmitt
2007-06-22  0:36       ` Taylor Venable
2007-06-21 19:43     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22  3:57 ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-21 20:56   ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-22  6:27     ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-21 21:36       ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22 16:24       ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 17:27         ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-22 21:53           ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 21:19   ` Sascha Wilde
2007-06-21 21:26     ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22  6:36     ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-21 22:08       ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-21 23:04         ` Drew Adams
2007-06-22  6:51           ` csant
2007-06-22 16:24           ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 17:12             ` Drew Adams
2007-06-22 21:53               ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-25 20:47               ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-25 21:05                 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 21:30                   ` Drew Adams
2007-06-25 21:30                 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-22  8:03         ` Sascha Wilde
2007-06-22  8:11           ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22  8:21             ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22  8:33             ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-22 12:37               ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-22 12:43                 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22 12:51                   ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-22 13:08                     ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22 13:16                       ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22 12:57                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-22 18:46                 ` Glenn Morris
2007-06-22 19:50                   ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-22 19:58                     ` Glenn Morris
2007-06-22 20:22                       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-22 10:23             ` Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea) Stephen Berman
2007-06-22 11:43               ` Initial splash screen David Kastrup
2007-06-22 14:19                 ` Stephen Berman
2007-06-22 20:09                   ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22 23:07                     ` Stephen Berman
2007-06-22 21:53               ` Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea) Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 22:11                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-23 13:19                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 14:57                     ` Initial splash screen David Kastrup
2007-06-22 22:46                 ` Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea) Stephen Berman
2007-06-23  6:42                   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-06-23 10:43                     ` Initial splash screen Stephen Berman
2007-06-23 18:27                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 19:05                       ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 13:19                         ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-25 13:34                           ` Mathias Dahl
2007-06-25 13:38                             ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22 18:51             ` A wish, a plea Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 20:05               ` David Kastrup
2007-06-23 13:19                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 14:45                   ` David Kastrup
2007-06-23 19:39                     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-24 14:41                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 19:02             ` Ryan Yeske
2007-06-28  1:04             ` Davis Herring
2007-06-22 16:24         ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 16:36           ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-22 21:53             ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23  6:21               ` David Kastrup
2007-06-23 18:27                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 18:58                   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2007-06-23 19:07                   ` David Kastrup
2007-06-24 14:41                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 19:47                   ` Hacksaw
2007-06-24 15:13                     ` Sascha Wilde
2007-06-24 17:18                       ` Hacksaw
2007-06-24 23:46                         ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-25  8:07                           ` Sascha Wilde
2007-06-21 23:18       ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-22  7:57       ` Sascha Wilde
2007-06-22  8:01         ` Karl Fogel
2007-06-22  8:16         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22  8:32           ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22  9:06             ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22  9:20               ` David Kastrup
2007-06-22  9:55                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22  8:01 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-22  8:15   ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-22  8:19   ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-22 11:58     ` David House
2007-06-22  8:20   ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22 13:19     ` Drew Adams
2007-06-22 13:33       ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22 14:23       ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-22 14:34         ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22 15:10           ` David House
2007-06-22 15:31         ` Drew Adams
2007-06-23 23:48       ` Johan Bockgård
2007-06-24  0:06         ` Drew Adams
2007-06-24  0:15           ` David Kastrup
2007-06-24  1:17             ` Drew Adams
2007-06-24 10:15               ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-24 14:05                 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-24 14:22                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-24 14:28                     ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 20:47         ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-25 21:28           ` Drew Adams
2007-06-22  8:41   ` Glyn Millington
2007-06-22 11:54     ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-06-22 12:33       ` Glyn Millington
2007-06-22  9:03   ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22 14:02   ` Denis Bueno

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