Wanda Revisited—GNOME Easter Eggs

Well, now that you've finished with your work in this chapter, it's time to goof around a bit by revisiting our precocious piscean pal, Wanda. Knowing what you now do about Wanda the fish, you might find it odd for me to start talking about her again, but Wanda has a few more tricks beneath her fins. In fact, she is a good means by which to introduce two of GNOME's most famous Easter eggs. Easter eggs, in case you don't know, are hidden snippets of code that programmers seem to love to sneak into their programs. They are usually pretty useless things, but they can be found in all operating systems, numerous applications, and even on DVDs (to find out more about those, go to http://www.dvdeastereggs.com/). A good ...

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