On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]> wrote: > Just in case folks are interested in more easter eggs and how to stop them > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: > Date: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:15 PM > Subject: Re: Free the fish > To: "Ramnarayan.K" <[email protected]> > > 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 > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- Ashutosh Rishi Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
