Re: [ELPA] New package: splash-screen

[Nicolas P. Rougier]

Thanks to your message I just realized that I made some confusion 
between the actual startup page and the about-emacs page that are 
similar yet different (for me they were the same since I disabled 
the startup screen a long time ago and never really read it). I 
also realized the startup page in graphical (emacs -q) and 
terminal mode (emacs -q -nw) are also different on my system for 
some unknown reason to me. In my case, only the terminal version 
display some useful key bindings.

Initially, my idea was to have a transient splash screen that can 
be bypassed by an experienced user but leads automatically to the 
startup screen for a new user where useful information is 
displayed. Now I've a problem because it's not clear how to show 
the initial startup screen;

Nicolas

Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> writes:

> I really want to like this, it looks nice -- though I miss the
> graphics.  But it is lacking the usefulness, and direction of 
> the
> original.  A new user would be totally lost as to what one would 
> do,
> reminiscant of the way vi starts up with nothing other than 
> beeps.
>
> Also, where would the information about recovering files be 
> shown?
>
> What about do you think about this?  
>
> While I think the visit new file "link" is useful, I think it 
> would be
> good to keep the menu bar shown when the splash screen is shown, 
> since
> most users would be familiar with the File menu and want to open 
> a
> file that way.
>
>
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