The quick start procedure is a bit too invasive

[dgutov]

I just installed this to try out and see the "enhanced default experience".

The UI is pretty spiffy (I'll take a note to maybe recommend it to people to try out), but the quick start procedure raised an eyebrow. The font installation could use a prompt (all-the-icons-install-fonts does prompt by default, unless called with non-nil argument). The sudo password prompt (by pdf-tools) wasn't great either.

[seagle0128]

which OS and version of Emacs?

[dgutov]

GNU/Linux and 27 pretest.

[seagle0128]

1. Install fonts: calling (all-the-icons-install-fonts t) to install fonts without prompts.
   https://github.com/seagle0128/.emacs.d/blob/master/lisp/init-ui.el#L240

2. Install pdf-tools: Calling (pdf-tools-install t nil t nil) to avoid prompts. sudo is required by pdf-tools on Linux (https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools#server-prerequisites).
   https://github.com/seagle0128/.emacs.d/blob/master/lisp/init-reader.el#L49

Could you please give me advices or suggestion?

[dgutov]

1. What about removing the t argument?

2. What happens if you don't call it? Does trying to use any of its features result in installation instructions? If so, that seems like it should be enough.

[seagle0128]

1. The default configurations depend on all-the-icons to display icons on UI. I think it's better to install fonts automatically, without any prompts, especially for new users. It's only for GUI mode.
2. Better solution is building pdfinfo if needed. (while opening pdf files)