On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:17:09AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 03:41:46PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > Simple explanations are usually correct (see .sig). If the system > > > locked up right after that easter egg kicked in, it's most likely > > > the easter egg's fault. Can you say "unforseen interactions between > > > various parts of the system"? > > > > Having read the code for said Easter egg, I'd say that if such a simple > > thing causes your system to lock up then you have rather serious > > problems anyway. > > Yes, but if those serious problems don't pop up unless the > easter egg kicks in...
FUD. Read the code: gnome-core source package, panel/main.c, search for 'fish'. You can allude to Occam's Razor if you like, but the fact is that if creating a window and sticking a handler on it that moves the window a few pixels every 150 milliseconds locks up your system then your X server is so buggy that you're screwed anyway. It's much more likely that something unrelated happened to go wrong at the same time. The fish is certainly useless, I won't argue with that - but can we please be sensible? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
