[ubuntu-in] Fwd: Free the fish

[Ramnarayan.K]

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.
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enjoy
ram