From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Initial splash screen (was Re: A wish, a plea) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:19:35 -0400 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182604785 19753 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2007 13:19:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:19:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen.Berman@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 23 15:19:42 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 1I25Wf-0006kF-HX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:19:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I25We-0007be-V7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:19:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I25Wb-0007Yr-CW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:19:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I25WZ-0007Vc-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:19:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I25WZ-0007VX-OJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:19:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I25WZ-0003Kd-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:19:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I25WZ-0006zb-8f; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:19:35 -0400 In-reply-to: <467C4900.6050705@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:73699 Archived-At: 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. But it could also backfire. I don't feel confident we can tell which one it would be. Perhaps we could do an experiment, but it won't be an easy experiment to do.