[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Patch to add the option to disable the Winter Egg.

sovereign at codefaction.net sovereign at codefaction.net
Mon Jan 3 02:39:30 CET 2011


> Le lundi 3 janvier 2011 02:22:10 sovereign at codefaction.net, vous avez
> écrit :
>> +#define WINTEREGG_TEXT N_( \
>> +    "Activate the QT Winter Egg")
>> +#define WINTEREGG_LONGTEXT N_( \
>> +    "Activate / Deactivate The QT Winter Egg. Humbug!")
>
> If the users who "need" this option can't figure out where it is and what
> it
> does, it's useless.
>
> I don't know what a "winter egg" is, and I could only guess what this
> commit
> did by reading the source code. But the intended users of the option won't
> have that luxury.
>
> --
> Rémi Denis-Courmont
> http://www.remlab.net/
> http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis

This style / commit / verbiage was at the request of J-B during a session
of IRC, from the location/placement of the checkbox (which was initially
in the simple interface) to the words used to describe it.

Ernest E. Teem III




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