Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Christopher Dimech]

Accessibility Tools must function by default.  Then one can make changes if 
they want to.
How can a person with certain limitations use free software when Emacs 
Accessibility Tools 
gets disabled by default???

This is a general introspection not only focused on Emacs.  But Emacs 
developers must 
remember these things if they want to be considered as serious people.

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Christopher Dimech
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 8:06 PM
> From: "Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> To: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
>
> Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On 12/15/20 12:30 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> >> Of 7.3K respondents, 5K disable toolbars, which is more than two
> >> thirds.  So perhaps toolbars should default to off?  I know toolbars
> >> were all the rage in the 90s, but that's apparently not the case now.
> >> 
> >> Opinions?
> >
> > 2¢: keep them, though with prettier icons. It's trivial to disable
> > them, but it's not trivial to discover that they exist if they are
> > disabled by default.
> 
> +1
>  
> > (FWIW, this is a general philosophy: I think Emacs should ship with a
> > lot more stuff enabled by default, maybe with a spartan-mode to revert
> > to the current defaults.)
> 
> That works for me as well.
> 
> Lots of eye candy by default to seduce new users, followed by easy ways
> to configure the UI for higher productivity (which is why I turn off the
> toolbar; keystrokes are more efficient than mouse movements, and this
> gives more screen area for text).
> 
> -- 
> -- Stephe
> 
>