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bug#2051: 23.0.60; task bar tooltip for GNU Emacs group


From: Drew Adams
Subject: bug#2051: 23.0.60; task bar tooltip for GNU Emacs group
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:08:46 -0800

On MS Windows, a mouseover on the taskbar group for an Emacs
session shows this tooltip:
 
"GNU Emacs for Windows NT/95/98/2000/ME/XP"
 
I don't use Vista, but I assume Emacs runs on Vista also. And it will
run on Windows 7 or whatever new comes along. I'd recommend removing
all of the version info and just using something like this:
 
"GNU Emacs for MS Windows"
 
Note the addition of "MS" (or perhaps "Microsoft"), to avoid confusion
with other meanings of "windows".
 
Or perhaps just "GNU Emacs" would be best. It's obviously running on
Windows, and Emacs on Windows is not a different product from Emacs
generally.
 
In particular, the "for" in "GNU Emacs for Windows" makes it sound
like this is some separate product designed specially _for_ (if not
by) Microsoft, even without the "MS" - kinda like "Michelin tires
for Costco". And that's far from being the case - this Emacs was
not made for Microsoft (or for MS Windows); it just runs (also) on
MS Windows. I don't see any other applications putting
"for Windows" in their tooltips. GNU should be the last to do that.
 

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-01-04 on LENNART-69DE564
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include
-fno-crossjumping'
 







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