From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
jasonr@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Next release
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 13:16:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u3aotdrtc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buod4nxi1ed.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
> From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
> Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 18:35:38 +0900
>
> Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
> > Another problem with it is that it would appear that nothing is
> > happening as Emacs is starting.
>
> Is that really such a problem though?
It would be for me: my .emacs processing tends to be very long, due to
large sessions loaded by desktop.
> Other apps seem to do that quite often.
Which is an annoying misfeature, IMO. And most (all?) apps that do
this tend to load very quickly, since they don't need to load anything
as large as my desktop.
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-01 9:48 Next release Nick Roberts
2008-05-01 10:32 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-01 23:07 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-02 0:04 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-01 17:43 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-01 19:52 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-01 20:30 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-02 1:00 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-02 6:48 ` CHENG Gao
2008-05-03 1:00 ` Bob
2008-05-03 8:09 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-03 9:22 ` CHENG Gao
2008-05-03 9:49 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-03 18:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-03 19:08 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-03 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-04 9:37 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-04 9:37 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-06 0:38 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-23 20:18 ` Problems preloading x-win.el (was: Next release) Stefan Monnier
2008-05-23 21:54 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-24 2:22 ` Problems preloading x-win.el Stefan Monnier
2008-05-24 3:19 ` Problems preloading x-win.el (was: Next release) YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-02 13:31 ` Next release Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-02 13:52 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-02 15:24 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-02 16:10 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-03 9:38 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-03 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-04 0:56 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-04 1:25 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-04 1:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-04 1:57 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-04 3:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-04 5:07 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-04 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-05 1:28 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-05 5:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-04 21:35 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-04 23:52 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-05 0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-05 7:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-05-07 18:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-07 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-08 1:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-08 8:22 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-08 8:32 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-08 9:04 ` David Reitter
2008-05-08 10:40 ` Jan Djärv
2008-05-08 10:55 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-10 8:55 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-10 20:30 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-10 23:53 ` David Reitter
2008-05-08 9:06 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-08 9:22 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-08 9:35 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-08 9:44 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-08 19:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-08 20:56 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-09 0:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-09 1:04 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-09 6:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-05-09 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-08 9:51 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-08 10:08 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-08 10:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-05-08 10:36 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-09 23:54 ` Juri Linkov
2008-05-08 9:45 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-08 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-08 13:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-08 13:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-05-08 14:50 ` Miles Bader
2008-05-09 11:12 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-08 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-08 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-08 2:34 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-05-09 1:35 ` Tool-bar changes (Was: Next release) Chong Yidong
2008-05-09 3:25 ` Tool-bar changes Stefan Monnier
2008-05-09 5:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-05-13 18:07 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-13 18:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-13 18:38 ` David Reitter
2008-05-13 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-14 2:17 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-14 4:28 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-14 4:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-14 19:30 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-14 20:50 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-15 1:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-06 0:40 ` Next release YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-04 21:23 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-05 0:44 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-05-04 2:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-04 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-04 6:58 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-04 8:15 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-04 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-04 18:59 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-04 20:31 ` Thomas Lord
2008-05-04 7:36 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-04 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-04 14:34 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-02 21:13 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-02 21:32 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-03 0:11 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-03 14:49 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-03 17:02 ` Alex
2008-05-03 21:00 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-04 3:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
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