Show name of currently running macro by hynr - 2013-08-08

QUOTE (Kai Team @ August 08, 2013 08:38 am)

...I am rethinking the need for a pinned Easter Egg post...

I had the sense as soon as I saw the pinned post, that suddenly these things are no longer "easter eggs".

I would make 2 points that are relevant:

1. While "easter egg" in the context here is slang jargon I think we all know this to represent software features that are generally hidden. In fact, the use here in the GSAK world is not exactly how the various available sources identify what this term means. I was surprised to even find it defined in print at all but one source I found has the closest to how we use it here:

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2. A message, graphic, or sound effect emitted by a program (or, on a PC, the BIOS ROM) in response to some undocumented set of commands or keystrokes, intended as a joke or to display program credits. One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to respond to the command "make love" with "not war". Many personal computers have much more elaborate eggs hidden in ROM, including lists of the developers' names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and (in one case) graphics images of the entire development team.

So we use the term here in a morphed fashion. Even if we do not all have the same definition, I believe we all would have "hidden" or "undocumented" somewhere in our definition. So exposing an easter egg to the general set of users makes it so it no longer fits the definition. As such if you are in a mode of clarifying things, then my advice would be to refrain from using this particular slang jargon term.

2. The fact that it was not clear to you (one of the most aware person as to where things are) to the point where you had the gut reaction to clarify it, suggests to me that your initial gut instinct on this was very good and that perhaps it merits making the information about setting things up in GSAK easier to find, particularly the individual links to where each item is given more detail. I believe that Clyde's recent email related to this also reflects that he wants to bring this more out in the open as simply configuration methodology rather than hidden special effects.

You are certainly right that it is in the documentation, but clearly very few folks find it there and we know this (otherwise why would we call these things "easter eggs" despite the fact that the documentation exists).

As such I would keep most of your post, unpin as you suggest, but move the information to the FAQ and put it there as an item about "GSAK settings". Remove the term "easter egg" because the very fact that you are providing some documentation means that this technical jargon term no longer applies.

Sorry for all the verbose nature of this message.