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Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage
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Nicolas Petton |
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Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage |
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Fri, 08 Jan 2016 11:00:53 +0100 |
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Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> Nicolas Petton <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I also worked on the "Features" section and made brand new screenshots,
>> and worked a bit on the descriptions.
>
> I like the screenshots. It’s nice with the shadow and edgings.
>
> I like the colors and the fonts very much! The purples are excellent.
>
>> Also new, I added 3 videos from Emacsrocks.com by Magnar Sveen.
>
> Maybe it's a good idea... But they are too small. Please don’t assume
> that I want to watch videos in full screen.
I plan to open videos in lightboxes instead, so it won't stay like that.
>
> The dark purple video box/section is so small compared to the other
> boxes/sections IMO.
Yes, I agree. I'll add a title to this section and add more bottom
padding.
> On the videos. Are these placeholders or do you plan to keep these exact
> videos?
I plan to use the latest 3 videos from emacsrocks.com.
> - Since you like to use the default theme + Gnome3 in screenshots,
> shouldn’t the videos use this? Also, it seems to be use a OS-Macs
> titlebar.
I know, but I'm not the author of these screencasts.
> - The first one doesn’t use nadvice.
> - The second seems to use features not present in emacs -q (multiple
> cursors?). wouldn’t it be nicer to show off features that are
> present out of the box?
> - Showing off wdired and rectangle-mode are cool features and might
> be good topics.
> - I find the video to be all over the place. But maybe it’s because
> I’m mistaking built-in features with features that are in the
> multiple cursor thingy Magnar is talking about.
> - It’s too long IMO (for longer presentations I prefer text).
> - The third video starts with a poorly written statement (with "funny
> math") from someone that I don’t know.
> - I love Paredit! And this is actually a pretty cool demo of it.
> Nonetheless, it’s not part of emacs -q and thus I think it doesn’t
> belong here.
Well, I think emacsrocks.com screencasts are really well made, exciting,
short and to the point.
Nico
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- New iteration on the Emacs homepage, Nicolas Petton, 2016/01/07
- Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage, Lee Hinman, 2016/01/07
- Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage, Scott Randby, 2016/01/07
- Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage, Rasmus, 2016/01/07
- Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage,
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- Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage, Nikolaus Rath, 2016/01/07
- Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage, Spencer Boucher, 2016/01/07
- Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage, Nicolas Semrau, 2016/01/07
- Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage, Xue Fuqiao, 2016/01/07
- Re: New iteration on the Emacs homepage, Yuri Khan, 2016/01/08