Re: New start up splash screen annoyance...
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
This is a one-off suggestion to emacs-devel, and y'all can do
what you
want to with it. Reply-To set to xemacs-beta where I plan to follow up.
Stefan Monnier writes:
> > Two frames always imply a fight: the window manager will try to find
> > places for them and decide on how to focus them. Getting a separate
> > window tamed is the matter of C-x 0 or C-x 1. In contrast, C-x 5 0 or
> > C-x 5 1 will leave one with a window configuration that might be worse
> > than if just one frame would have been placed.
The important implication of this is that window manager or init file
settings might leave the splash screen obscured. That's not what
Richard wants. David's particular configuration is not a big deal
(except to him), given the goal of this decision, but the complexity
of getting the splash screen on top is.
AFAICR, we talked about this several years ago, and I think my opinion
was already that a so-called splash screen should be an
override-redirect window (not managed by the window manager), centered
on the screen[1], that stays for a while (see below), or until there's a
mouse click on it.
But note that it's different from a user calling display-splash-frame
which should probably stay as it is. I really don't think most users
make an actual use of the splash screen at startup (but prove me wrong).
However, when someone calls d-s-f, it's probably to do something with it
(click the about buttons and stuff). So the splash screen need not be
interactive IMO.
Footnotes:
[1] that would also have the advantage of giving time to setup all the
faces and stuff *before* the first frame is actually displayed, and only
then, popup something ready to use.
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