Re: [Evolution] New little icon in v1.5.7. What's it's purpose?

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 21:31 -0700, Chris Toshok wrote:
> And easter eggs and fun little features are things that keep programmers
> interested in working on code they've been living and breathing for 4
> years.
>
> Are you seriously this bothered by an icon?  bizarre.

Seriously bothered?  No.

As a human, I of course understand the need for levity.  Being a
corporate developer, though, it's beyond my comprehension to put
an EE in s/w, mainly because I'm always on a deadline, and there's
always stuff waiting in the queue.

> Chris
>
> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 23:30 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 11:59 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 22:41 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: 
> > > > On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 10:31 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > > Upper right-hand corner you mean?
> > > >
> > > > Yes, sorry.
> > > >
> > > > > Thats in all message windows, and yes, it just indicates the mail was
> > > > > sent with evolution.  Its only shown if you have the "Mailer" header
> > > > > turned on.
> > > >
> > > > Seems like a useless bit of fluff, that only adds complexity.
> > >
> > > Well its actually just meant to be a little bit of FUN actually.
> > >
> > > Insert sense of humour here.
> >
> > Fun?  Programming computers?  You must be a communist hippy!
> >
> > In all seriousness, though, I was just thinking that the number 
> > of bugs is exponentially related to the number of lines of code, 
> > and anything that could reduce said number of lines of code would 
> > be a good thing.
> >
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