Re: Gitlab Migration

[Philip Kaludercic]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Opt-in changes are an effective way of dealing with such resistance.
>> They cannot be easily vetoed.
>
> We have previously discussed extending the concept of a "theme", which
> is currently basically just visual.  I think the way forward here is to
> allow people to create opinionated views on how Emacs should work (from
> keystrokes on up to basically...  anything), and include these in Emacs.

Conversely, themes could also be used to reset changes. You could have
an Emacs-21, Emacs-27, XEmacs theme bundled by default, allowing people
to reset the defaults to whatever they are used to.

> New users, when starting Emacs, would then be able to choose between,
> say, five of these mega-themes on the start-up screen by just clicking
> them.

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        Philip Kaludercic