Re: [ELPA] New package: splash-screen

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > On my system, latest versions of GDB, GCC, and Binutils programs all
   > show this in their "--version" output, which is the equivalent of the
   > Emacs splash screen (since Emacs is primarily an interactive GUI/TUI
   > program, not a console application).

   I would argue that "--version" corresponds to our "About" screen. As it 
   is also for most other graphical applications. Many of them don't have 
   any splash screen to begin with.

   Our splash screen should be more comparable to launching GCC or GDB with 
   no arguments. When one does that, GDB does print the "NO WARRANTY" 
   message, and GCC does not.

Because GDB is an interactive program, and GCC is not.  Our practise
is to have the no warranty screen display in --version output, and if
the program is interactive when that starts.

I'll submit a patch for the GNU Coding standards to amend so that
interactive programs are explicitly mentioned.  Seeing we already do
this for such cases, it would be mostly documenting existing practise.