[ubuntu-in] Fwd: Free the fish

[Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just in case folks are interested in more easter eggs and how to stop them
>
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> Date: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Free the fish
> To: "Ramnarayan.K" <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
>
> Hi Ram.
>
> I didn't know about "free the fish", but it turns out that it's a GNOME
> easter egg, not an Ubuntu one per se. It is a gnome-panel feature, i.e.
> it doesn't spawn any extra processes.
>
> http://www.koders.com/c/fidAE30711B15FF187E3B1087F51EA27C38E34218E4.aspx?s=%22free+the+fish%22#L306
>
>> but how does one stop it, ??
>
> Heh heh. Hit Alt+F2 and run "gnome-panel --replace".
>
>> I
>> and what are all these strange things doing in the code
>
> Lots of easter eggs. Rather too many, in my opinion. :-)
>
>> are they all eggs, and can i make them work ??
>
> Yes, they are, but they may not all be in the version of gnome-panel
> that you are running. I tried just now on another machine, and it
> recognised only "free the fish" and "gegls from outer space".
>
> Anyway, to try it, just hit Alt+F2 and type in (exactly) the phrase in
> the double-quotes in each of the strcmp() calls.
> ***

Thanks. The fish was getting boring. I am gonna try and add a new gif
animation to the panel applet 'Fish' and see if the fish in "free the
fish" also gets replaced. Its the same fish.


> enjoy
> ram
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