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Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
From: |
Christopher Dimech |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 06:54:43 +0100 |
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 6:34 AM
> From: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> To: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
>
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> > Of 7.3K respondents, 5K disable toolbars, which is more than two
> > thirds. So perhaps toolbars should default to off? I know toolbars
> > were all the rage in the 90s, but that's apparently not the case now.
>
> > Opinions?
>
> The people who responded to that survey are certainly not representative
> of all users. They were selected for being users of certain web sites.
>
> That doesn't imply that most users want toolbars. Maybe hardly anyone
> wants toolbars.
>
> So here's an idea. We could make Emacs display, where the toolbar
> would have been, a question:
>
> Would you like a toolbar here or not? Yes No
>
> If you click Yes, that customizes to permanently turn on the toolbar.
> If you click No, that customizes to permanently turn off the toolbar.
>
> Each one could offer to click on a web page where you could
> register your preference. That way we would get a complete sample.
Toolbar icons are the equivalent to keybindings for those who use the
mouse. Rather than arguing about having a toolbar or not, allow the
user to introduce a toolbar icon and associate with it a specific command.
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- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Jean Louis, 2020/12/18
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/18
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/19
- RE: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Drew Adams, 2020/12/19
- Re: RE: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Christopher Dimech, 2020/12/19
- RE: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Drew Adams, 2020/12/18
Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Gregory Heytings, 2020/12/16
Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/16
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars,
Christopher Dimech <=
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/16
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/17
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Christopher Dimech, 2020/12/17
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/18
- Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Christopher Dimech, 2020/12/18
Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/16
Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars, chad, 2020/12/16