Re: evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial

[Juri Linkov]

>> Everyone will still see it on the startup screen.  Anyway, this line
>> is less noticeable than the line "Emacs Tutorial Learn basic keystroke
>> commands", so when the user visits the Tutorial without reading
>> anything else on the startup screen, then the user misses this important
>> information on the beginning of the Tutorial.  So I also propose to add
>> this line to the Tutorial as well.  The following path does this:
>
> Sounds good.

Another unfriendly thing on the Startup screen is the item:

  Emacs Guided Tour     Overview of Emacs features

It has no obvious indication that it links to the external URL and that
after clicking will start a WWW browser.  It has the description on the
tooltip but this is not visible when the mouse is not over it.  I propose
to explicitly say that this link leads to the external URL by changing the
text to:

  Emacs Guided Tour     Overview of Emacs features at gnu.org

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/