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Re: "About Emacs" menu item?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: "About Emacs" menu item? |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:24:47 +0200 (IST) |
On 31 Jan 2002, John Paul Wallington wrote:
> There is no reason why selecting the "about Emacs" menu item need
> display the startup-message. The startup-message tells the user about
> important Help Menu and File Menu items, but doesn't tell an awful lot
> About Emacs.
>
> When the user has chosen to select the "about Emacs" menu item it is
> fair to assume he is prepared to read a little, and to present him
> with more information.
Actually, the Help->About item is a standard item in most GUI programs,
and normally all it displays is the version, the copyright, and little
else.
For example, in a random program I've just chosen, I see:
- a full name of the program
- copyright
- "licensed to <name of the person who bought it>"
- some free memory information (who knows why)
- a small button labeled "more info" which, when pressed, displays
versions of all the modules/shared libraries used by the program
> Selecting the "about Emacs" menu item could create a new buffer with
> the Emacs logo at the top and then include a couple of paragraphs of
> text about Emacs. I'm not sure what information Emacs should convey
> to a user about itself, however.
I think this is not what users expect from a "About" item. Perhaps we
could add something like the "more info" button, though.
- Re: "About Emacs" menu item?, (continued)
- Re: "About Emacs" menu item?, Richard Stallman, 2002/01/29
- Re: "About Emacs" menu item?, Pavel Janík, 2002/01/30
- Re: "About Emacs" menu item?, Richard Stallman, 2002/01/30
- Re: "About Emacs" menu item?, Pavel Janík, 2002/01/31
- Re: "About Emacs" menu item?, John Paul Wallington, 2002/01/30
- Re: "About Emacs" menu item?, Pavel Janík, 2002/01/31
- Re: "About Emacs" menu item?, John Paul Wallington, 2002/01/31
- Re: "About Emacs" menu item?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: "About Emacs" menu item?, John Paul Wallington, 2002/01/31
- Re: "About Emacs" menu item?, Alex Schroeder, 2002/01/31
- Re: "About Emacs" menu item?, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/01/31