Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...

[David Kastrup]

dhruva <address@hidden> writes:

>  I have another idea (might be considered crazy...) Is it possible
> to have something like a screen saver. On some duration of
> inactivity, bring up a buffer with all the required
> information. When there is mouse/keyboard activity, restore the
> previous active buffer. In this way, we make the information visible
> in a rather non intrusive manner.

If the "screen saver interval" for Emacs is larger than for the
system, this might never get seen.  It is also exactly the wrong
mechanism to use for presenting information that is intended to help
people start operating Emacs.  And a large part of the splash screen
is intended to provide this kind of information.

Supplementary information about the GNU project and stuff could be
presented in this manner, and if the splash screen is shown as a
_reminder_ in this way that might also be tolerable.  But in any case,
the objective was that a user would unintentionally never get to know
about the splash screen when always starting Emacs with a file name.
And a screen-saver like method does not seem to be the best way.

In particular since _if_ the user is interested in the splash screen
links, clicking on them would not work (since the "screen saver" would
revert back to the original window content).

-- 
David Kastrup