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GNOME 3.10 Released

GNOME 3.10 Released

Posted Sep 29, 2013 18:26 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: GNOME 3.10 Released by hummassa
Parent article: GNOME 3.10 Released

Quite. Things are not "easter eggs" if they are used by the overwhelming majority of users of that environment, and widely documented. Middle-click to paste is *not* an easter egg. Heck, it was the first thing I ever learned about X, before I even learned how to start an xterm!

It's culturally transmitted knowledge, sure. So is the do { ... } while(0) pattern for statement-like macros in C. Maybe we should remove that too?


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