Re: fancy-splash-screen customize group...

[Lennart Borgman]

Peter Whaite wrote:

> You would also expect something about finding customizations to be in
> the info that is displayed when you press the 'Help' button, but there
> is nothing obvious.  The documentation for 'customize-apropos' is under
> 'Specific Customization' which doesn't exactly jump out at you.  How
> about renaming it to 'Finding Customizations', and changing the info
> node header to 'Finding and Customizing Specific Items'?
>
> There is also no mention of customize-apropos-options,
> customize-apropos-groups, or customize-apropos-faces.  There should be.
>  
I have already once proposed and written a new look and feel for the 
custom buffer. Now is not the time to do that perhaps (and my old patch 
will not work now), but some simple things can be done now to make the 
situation a bit better:

*** 1) At the top of the customize buffer there are now two buttons that 
does not work on the content of the buffer at all. These are

   Invoke [Custom File] for information...
   Invoke [Help] for general information.

Changing the look of this buttons to just underlined text would improve 
things a lot. They are really just links. Changing "Invoke" to "See" 
would make it less of a guessing game too.


*** 2) When you click on the "Help" link (button) then the info node 
"(emacs) Easy Customization" is displayed. I believe the 
customize-apropos-* functions should be mentioned there, right after 
"Groups" in the menu at the bottom.