[MonoDevelop] Reticulating Spines and Other Wastes of Time

[Scott Ellington]

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:
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> 
> tyler at onion:~/sources/mono-project/monodevelop> RETICULATE=1 make run
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> 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/
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> 
> Hilarity Ensues...
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> The patch is against SVN, and is located
> here: http://www.bleepconsulting.com/patches/monodevelop/ProgressTracker.cs.diff
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> I hope this patch is accepted, I'd love to set my MonoDevelop to start
> from the KDE bar with this enabled :)
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> Anyways, I look forward to zesting your oranges soon :)
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> 
> Cheers
> 
> R. Tyler Ballance: Custom Mac and Linux Development at bleep.
> consulting 
> contact: tyler at bleepconsulting.com | jabber: tyler at jabber.geekisp.com 
> 
> 
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