From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please add a
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:15:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsfjtl0s.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20081104T024303-95@post.gmane.org> (Jason Spiro's message of "Tue, 4 Nov 2008 02:47:36 +0000 (UTC)")
Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com> writes:
> Months ago, on 2008-Jul-13, Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> wrote:
>> > Over a year ago (2007-01-30) Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> [snip]
>> > Please add a command to the Help menu to show the user the
>> > Emacs guided tour.
>> > I see two options for how it could work:
>> >
>> > 1. You could make the command launch the system default web
>> > browser and point
>> > it to http://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/tour/
>>
>> Thanks. This link is already added to the startup screen,
>> so there is no more need to put it on the Help menu.
>>
> Juri, I think it would be better to also have a link on the Help menu.
> That's because I bet some users look only on the Help menu, and not
> also on the splash screen, for help.
>
> All: what do you think?
It's a little counter-intuitive for menu items to open hyperlinks, at
least in my experience.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-04 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-27 19:37 minor suggestions for splash screen Drew Adams
2007-01-30 10:38 ` evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial (was: minor sugg...splash screen) Jason Spiro
2007-01-30 11:06 ` evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial David Kastrup
2007-01-30 11:23 ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-01-31 13:28 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-30 11:32 ` Jason Spiro
2007-01-31 4:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-31 8:18 ` Chris Moore
2007-01-30 20:26 ` evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial (was: minor sugg...splash screen) Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-30 20:49 ` Jason Spiro
2008-06-30 15:56 ` Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command (was: Re: evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial) Jason Spiro
2008-07-06 21:57 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-12 22:21 ` evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial Juri Linkov
2008-07-13 5:30 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-13 21:33 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-13 7:02 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-13 21:29 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-04 2:47 ` Please add a Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 18:15 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-11-04 19:05 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-04 19:42 ` Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command (was: Re: evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial) Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 20:09 ` Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command Juri Linkov
2008-11-04 20:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 21:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-04 21:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 22:03 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 22:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-04 22:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 21:38 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 22:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-04 22:37 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-04 23:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-05 4:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 20:46 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 21:19 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-04 21:37 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 21:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 21:34 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 21:44 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-04 22:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 21:25 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-04 21:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 21:44 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-04 22:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 22:30 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-04 22:04 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-04 23:10 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 23:56 ` Davis Herring
2008-11-05 0:11 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-05 0:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-04 23:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-04 23:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-04 18:23 ` Please add a Drew Adams
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