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Re: Wanda the fish



On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:32:50AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:01:13PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote:
> > Quoth Kurt Dresner, 
> > > Wanda the fish just randomly swam across my screen.
> > > 
> > > What the heck is going on with my computer?
> > 
> > Presumably you're running GNOME. I remember reading somewhere that it's
> > one of the (many?) GNOME easter eggs.
> > 
> > I don't really know anything more about it, but I believe it's harmless.
> 
> Yep. I had a look at the code (in the GNOME panel) once when it had just
> happened to me, and I think it's expected to happen once a month or so.
> You'll find the graphics for it in /usr/share/pixmaps/fish/fishanim.png.
> 

Hmmmm. Having open source kind of takes the mystery out of this sort
of thing ... :-(

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