Re: Improved welcome screen

[Arthur Miller]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> On 27.04.2020 15:30, Stefan Kangas wrote:
>> Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Maybe some improvements to the welcome screen.
>> OK, so here's a proposal for a better welcome screen.  The idea was to
>> get rid of the impenetrable wall of text we have now by simplifying
>> it.
>
> Yesterday, this was posted on Reddit as a concept:
> https://camo.githubusercontent.com/7f0804a2670362a0623a0ede5338e5bd8655078c/68747470733a2f2f692e726564642e69742f366870626f66343078737834312e706e67
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/ggnekq/a_very_minimal_but_elegant_emacs_i_think/
>
> What do you think of the style?
>
> It seems that the author has assigned copyright for some art to FSF in the 
> past,
> so we could ask for an assignment for Emacs. And then base our screen on this,
> adjusting the actual information shown to best suit our requirements.
It looks nice, but he could have add a link to reference card too (under
Quick help maybe). Maybe less text, skipp the info about Lisp for
example. But as idea looks nice.