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Re: Fiddling with the menus
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Richard Riley |
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Re: Fiddling with the menus |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:05:51 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:36:04 -0400
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> > * The Time, Battery, are of little use. Their functionality are
>> > provided by the OS's tool bar. Again, for geeks who need it, it is
>> > easy to call the command by “M-x”.
>>
>> I'd tend to agree.
>
> These settings are already in a second-level menu, so how can they
> possibly bother anyone? Just because Xah doesn't see any use for
> them, it doesn't mean others won't. When I work on a laptop, I have
Then turn them on. Most people have a desktop clock already
configured. Seems obvious enough.
> the Battery display on all the time, because Emacs lets me customize
> that display in ways most OSes never will. As for Time, why should I
Then turn it on for laptops. More specifically yours. Most of us have a
system battery monitor.
> move my eyes to the system's display, somewhere on the fringes of the
> screen, just to know what time it is?
And why should everyone else have their emacs modeline infested with
unnecessary stuff when they have the GUI properly configured.
>
>> But I also do not remember why they were added
>
> Mainly to advertise these features. Many users don't know Emacs has
> them.
Poor excuse since there are millions of things emacs has which new users
won't know about. They were put there to appease a tiny minority I
suspect.
Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Florian Beck, 2009/08/09
Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
Re: Fiddling with the menus, Juri Linkov, 2009/08/09