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Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...


From: Sascha Wilde
Subject: Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:46:00 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     I was almost going to suggest that, or something similar: Add an
>>     `X' button to (all) mode lines at the far right, which when
>>     clicked would delete the window. Did you mean something like
>>     that (but just for the startup display)?
>>
>> This is a good idea, in a general way, but I have one concern.
>> Normally the X to close a window is at the TOP right corner.
>> If there is an X at the right on a mode line, I think users
>> might suppose it refers to the window below it.  Then when
>> it instead deletes the window above the mode line, they
>> will be surprised.
>
> We could display [X] upside down to show the difference.

I think this definitely should be included in the DEVEL.HUMOR file.

cheers
sascha
-- 
Sascha Wilde
    "Liebet eure Feinde, vielleicht schadet das ihrem Ruf" 
    (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)




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