From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dhruva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New start up splash screen annoyance... Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:13:30 +0530 Message-ID: References: <8564281r5x.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190094294 6500 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2007 05:44:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:44:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "David Kastrup" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 18 07:44:53 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 1IXVtD-0001Mu-Rc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:44:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXVtC-0003KE-Em for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXVrz-0002zJ-Ll for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:43:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IXVrx-0002yK-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXVrw-0002yF-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.184]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IXVrw-0004CR-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so1377261nfh for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:43:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=/QE5vjRWoKkAQ1KXfX/TWkAic0jRZUNYXhlWZiBqvJY=; b=BkqzfK4QVmUnbdJeo6XOR3eJuxL6iTSiz67UIOKzMNIf6rkf/JFphcvgyS46JEOQjSefl3YUV5O6cHVUOUjreyegKD+cl/wVBw3XbBMfUUOi58KXhYORSMcXUnG6qXFOvqdkDBdLTonclRGNchv1m9ijYlmmcn/LYMu/kOGHAPY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dLZ03Y6hgSiyg/JUPgq15ZCh7R+jzYctkD6/bHrzX/ox5TMWk7G/qYOhVYDjAqhP0xqiXR8y2RveujEmsCON/BM5z3nx9xQxq1BAqUGXGg/yhgnRgCrZGMaAbgl9aocSZ3YqDwH46QAEJSzm4sOawqpEnpwuPK1yIo9mlTAcmug= Original-Received: by 10.78.21.7 with SMTP id 7mr3279496huu.1190094210392; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:43:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.90.19 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:43:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8564281r5x.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Content-Disposition: inline X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:79174 Archived-At: Hi, On 9/18/07, David Kastrup wrote: > We should really try finding a behavior that will put the information > in obvious and easy reach to the user every time, and won't be > annoying. It may sound crazy but.... Once we have tiling Emacs, we could set all the information we want as a background image and make the transparency increase progressively (maybe between days instead of invocations) and finally fade off (unless turned off/on explicitly through dotemacs). -dky -- Dhruva Krishnamurthy Contents reflect my personal views only!