From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A new filter-based customization interface Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:24:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39948"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Moakt Temporary Email Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 10 04:25:21 2025 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tW5eD-000AEj-12 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:25:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tW5dX-0006DK-72; Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:24:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tW5dV-0006Cq-BW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:24:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tW5dU-0005bC-DM; Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:24:36 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=HAc5VnsaVRDJ2ksjRDEeA2mf+7iPFw/GY37vnhM9WI0=; b=ZU5AXISjuFc6 B8xG7RQgzfVU3MoiKTGUzqlIBbLdUhBGhR8cZrs7DzXZS2/PlnELDEa8V8yRI1iPL/ZN7NkiPwjka 1nZxBsXb4k2ADDHiGKVDbXui8zOx+vSRgT7mRBQfkA6cTJSb+ipw8PoG5Sxo9Bllr5UQ5sm8bB4vv 2DwwghI7mPnEbvhULoCufekvdv0C3yYUA4QzSAM30yG6XuG0TmtshZEXrEVHrW+6YSDBUTzjOkUVW 5sHv122O9/ZDmjUJXUrevs56jkoGU0+kwXcmYLcD2WFD9PcKajwJstAHQRrxk3VCtBBTW0ZICS1Zg ctQBrshHglQKGfVi5NFhhg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tW5dT-0002Qs-P9; Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:24:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Moakt Temporary Email on Thu, 9 Jan 2025 13:46:55 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:327823 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Your idea has both "filters" and "categories". I gather that both filters and categories select subsets of the set of all the options. What is the difference between these two kinds of subset? Which subsets should be "filters" and which should be "categories"? > 1- This new interface (as you already saw in the image), can put them > forward. I understand the general goal here, but _how_, concretely, does this interface do that? You talk about general goals, and they make sense as goals. But in order to be an idea that is possible to consider, it has to explain _how_ it will make certain options more discoerable. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)