Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...

[Manoj Srivastava]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:16:16 +0200, Kim F Storm <address@hidden> said: 

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>> Is your mind made up that this is the way Emacs must behave, or are
>> there any arguments that might change your mind?
>> 
>> My mind is made up that we must arrange that beginners who always
>> specify a file name argument mostly do see the splash screen
>> information.

> I'm all in favour of the intentions behind this decision, but my fear
> is that making it too intrusive (i.e. annoying) will cause many
> sysadmins and even makers of "Linux distributions" (as they
> incorrectly call themselves) to simply turn off the splash-screen
> altogether for _all_ users.

> AFAICS, the only thing we can do to prevent that is to find a
> reasonably non-annoying way to "say what we want to say".

        I am not sure I understand this viewpoint. I have been using
 Emacs since '88, so I am pretty "seasoned" -- but I don't seem to see
 the issue you are raising; and I am wondering if we are looking at the
 same thing.

        What I saw was a splash screen -- but it came with a nice
 _dismiss_ button, and even a checkbox that said "don't show this
 again".  This is not much of an annoyance -- since it only ever appears
 once, and has an easy way to dismiss the screen.

        As someone who has influence with one of the much despised
 GNU/Linux distribution makers, I can say your fears are somewhat
 overblown.

        manoj
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