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Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...
From: |
Manoj Srivastava |
Subject: |
Re: New start up splash screen annoyance... |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:45:55 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) |
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
--
Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence. Dijkstra
Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/>
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- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., (continued)
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., David Kastrup, 2007/09/20
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Bastien, 2007/09/20
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Bastien, 2007/09/21
- RE: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Drew Adams, 2007/09/21
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Sean Sieger, 2007/09/21
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Bastien, 2007/09/21
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Davis Herring, 2007/09/21
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Richard Stallman, 2007/09/22
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...,
Manoj Srivastava <=
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., David Kastrup, 2007/09/20
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Sean O'Rourke, 2007/09/20
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Glenn Morris, 2007/09/20
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Sean O'Rourke, 2007/09/20
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Glenn Morris, 2007/09/20
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Juri Linkov, 2007/09/20
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., David Kastrup, 2007/09/21
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Richard Stallman, 2007/09/21
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Juri Linkov, 2007/09/22
- Re: New start up splash screen annoyance..., Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/22