[TxMt] Best Change Log Ever?

[David Marshall]

I think that the point that the curmudgeons are trying to make is that
the "holiday" changes were unexpected and not very easy to get rid of.
 I thought it was pretty neat, but after looking at it for five days,
I just wanted it to go away.  Hmm, it was supposed to have gone away
with a sofware updated, am I doing that correctly?  I am supposed to
be getting minor updates only, did I get a cutting-edge update by
accident?  Do I need to get a cutting-edge update to make this go
away?  I finally figured out that I should quit and restart TextMate
to make it go away.  Woo, that finally worked.  Unfortunately, I spent
ten minutes trying to resolve something that had started to bug me
after five days.  I guess I did learn something about my Mac (I'm in
my 2nd year of post-switch!)

However, as a paying customer, I would have preferred that this had
either gone away by itself after a day or so or that there had been a
very prominent option in the Preferences to make it go away.

Please don't get me wrong.  I loved the thought but didn't love the
execution quite as much.  The arrival of a Hallow'een logo definitely
brightened my day(s).  It won't be as much a surprise as this was, but
I'll surely smile when and if future holiday art shows up.  It's an
endearing attribute of the philosophy of TextMate, and it makes me
happy that I spent however many euros I spent.

Summary: keep up the good work, but realize that some people either
don't get it or just want to edit files.

On 11/4/06, Corey Jewett <ml at syntheticplayground.com> wrote:
> I personally was offended. And once I stopped chuckling I immediately
> hit up a bunch of my friends to check it out. Keep it up Allan, TM
> gets better every day.
>
> Corey
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
>
> > On 3. Nov 2006, at 18:15, Jim Plush wrote:
> >
> >> [REMOVED] TextMate no longer pays tribute to human sacrifices,
> >> rape, nor does it show a picture of the God of the deaths in your
> >> dock -- ticket 945BEB5D
> >>
> >> lol, please tell me people didn't complain about the easter egg?
> >
> > The rape and human sacrifice was posted on my blog [1], the God of
> > the dead (yeah, I misspelled it in the release notes) was a
> > personal comment.
> >
> > I think I got a dozen or so complaints, which though is nothing
> > compared to how much positive feedback I got -- so I took it as an
> > interesting sociological experience :)
> >
> > And, while this wasn't meant to be a PR stunt, sales and web
> > traffic doubled in the two days we had the theme, which makes it
> > quite ironic to then read feedback such as I am losing my
> > professional reputation etc. ;)
> >
> >
> > [1] http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2006/10/31/happy-halloween/
> > #comment-1739
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