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Re: Interactive guide for new users


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Interactive guide for new users
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:39:39 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)

On Sep 26 2020, Drew Adams wrote:

>> may I ask that if you click on "don't display again",
>> the UI displays a brief explanation that it created
>> the file and where it is? 
>>
>> It's a pet peeve of mine because in many applications
>> I have selected such options accidentally and then
>> had no way to find out how to get back to the original state.
>
> Yup.  It's a pain to have to google later to
> find out how to set/unset/reset some setting
> (preference).
>
> Particularly a setting you chose (especially
> if forced to choose) on the fly when you
> brought up an app for the first time.

I don't think a transient display of the explanation will fundamentally
change the situation.

Andreas.

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