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>>>>> "William" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

> Steven L. Baur writes:

> Timeout on splash screen, command to bring up splash screen.

William>   Hmmm - I don't know if I would remove the timeout entirely.

O.K.  All I ended up doing was increasing the timeout.

William> Please do not add anything to the help menu without first
William> completely revising it.

Yup.  It hurts to look at it.  23 entries by default, and 24 once
Customize adds its menu item.

William> Emacs-19 has 14 entries in its help menu, and I think that is
William> going a tad too far.  XEmacs has so many right now that it
William> almost goes off a 1024x768 screen with default fonts,
William> etc. God forbid you try to find something on it quickly.

William> I would suggest removing most of the stuff from the help menu
William> and having at most 10-12 entries on it.  With most other
William> stuff accessible from either subsequent screens, or broken
William> out into their own top-level menus.

I'll try submenuing common items and doing a bit of reorganization and
we'll see how it works.
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