Reticulating Spines and Other Wastes of Time

I like it.  Though there is a couple of offensive ones i'd
take out
(like 'Kicking puppies','Splicing Kittens').  After that, if
it's cool
with Lluis, i'd commit it.

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:11 -0600, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> After talking about it with Alan and Jo in #mono, I've
written a tiny
> little easter egg patch for MonoDevelop.
> 
> 
> This little patch allows for some
"interesting" status messages to be
> displayed in the splash screen as opposed to the boring
old
> "Initializing MonoDevelop" "Loading Boo
Binding Add-in" etc.
> 
> 
> Instead, it will display "Releasing
Hamsters..." or "Burninating the
> Peasants..." etc. The behavior is enabled by
setting the "RETICULATE"
> environment variable, for example:
> 
> 
> tyleronion:~/sources/mono-project/monodevelop>
RETICULATE=1 make run
> 
> 
> Whereas a simple "make run" will display the
normal status messages, a
> screenshot of the "feature" can be found
> here: http://
flickr.com/photos/agentdero/327245643/
> 
> 
> Hilarity Ensues...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The patch is against SVN, and is located
> here: http://www.bleepconsulting.com/patches
/monodevelop/ProgressTracker.cs.diff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I hope this patch is accepted, I'd love to set my
MonoDevelop to start
> from the KDE bar with this enabled 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Anyways, I look forward to zesting your oranges soon

> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> R. Tyler Ballance: Custom Mac and Linux Development at
bleep.
> consulting 
> contact: tylerbleepconsulting.com | jabber: tylerjabber.geekisp.com 
> 
> 
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Hello,

> tyleronion:~/sources/mono-project/monodevelop>
RETICULATE=1 make run

This is just more code to maintain, and more bloat.

I would rather have patches that actually fix one of the 147
bugs filed:

	http://tinyurl.com/ygwbog

Miguel.
> 
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