From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Next release Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 02:54:08 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <873aoraz17.fsf@jurta.org> References: <18457.37369.262079.668907@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200805040056.m440u3eS022727@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <874p9dn46h.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4822B82A.6030003@gnu.org> <86zlr1qjq3.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <4822C648.7050901@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210379589 2662 80.91.229.12 (10 May 2008 00:33:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 00:33:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Miles Bader To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 10 02:33:43 2008 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 1Jud1w-0002OJ-LJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 May 2008 02:33:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44767 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jud1E-0003CR-6H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 20:32:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JucyX-0001NM-MK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 20:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JucyV-0001M1-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 20:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49857 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JucyV-0001Ls-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 20:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]:54803) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JucyH-0004qE-EB; Fri, 09 May 2008 20:29:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JucyD-000PRM-BM; Sat, 10 May 2008 03:29:49 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 08 May 2008 13:16:15 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: ba97961d419726f65b83e74233c16638 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2798 [May 08 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:96914 Archived-At: >> Anyway, a specialized "Starting Emacs..." splash screen could use a simple >> hard-wired image and skip all the grot associated with emacs image >> loading. [Indeed, just embed the image as a pixmap in the C code...] > > That could be a good solution, I think. We could even simply show a > simple text-only frame with an echo area showing the various messages, > to avoid the impression that nothing happens. Or better yet to show the *Messages* buffer with some fixed text in its header line. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/