Re: Grey Matter
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
David Kastrup writes:
> It would appear a good idea to me if the respective menu entries
> were added by autoloads contained in the package.
Maybe, but it's not a no-brainer. The presence of a menu entry makes
the feature more discoverable.
Poor excuse. If there is no obvious way to get from the greyed-out menu
entry to an installed package providing it, it just serves to annoy the
user.
For people wanting to discover everything, there is Sumo. People not
installing it presumably _want_ a customized XEmacs. There is little
point then in advertising parts of the uncustomized XEmacs by cluttering
the user interface with non-functional elements.
If a less than Sumo XEmacs is strictly inferior not just in
functionality but also usability and simplicity than Sumo, the package
system provides _only_ disadvantages to the user when compared to a
monolithic system like Emacs.
Another case of "As opposed to Emacs, XEmacs comes with a gun!",
unfortunately mounted rigidly pointing at the user's foot.
--
David Kastrup
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