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<p>Dear all!</p>
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<p>It's now one and a half year since I met Smalltalk and Squeak. And I am convinced that it was the best thing that could have happened to me! I am very grateful that this beautiful ecosystem exists, a haven of simple expressivity and usability, of liveness
and explorability, and a haven of collaborativity. And I am even more grateful that still in 2019, where more and more hip, short-lived environments & languages attract your attention (of which, certainly, many may be smart and useful, but most definitely,
hardly anyone will come close to Squeak in terms of abstraction and modifiability) - even today, you are being here and keep contributing to Squeak!</p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt">I would like to thank you for all the energy you daily </span><span style="font-size:12pt">put into </span><span style="font-size:12pt">development and maintenance of Squeak, and for being such a great community.</span><br>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt"></laudation> ;-)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">This year, I had the idea to celebrate Squeak with a small collection of
<b>XmasDecorations.</b> These include several small modifications of the Trunk image, with the aim to bring the Christmas spirit into our favorite system. They're nothing special, but I think they are a good example for the advantages of Squeak's universal
extensibility:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><img naturalheight="762" naturalwidth="1012" size="805688" id="img598490" tabindex="0" style="max-width: 99.9%; user-select: none;" src="cid:c2334de2-7f43-46a2-a08f-5f1d38e92ce2"><br>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">Features include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size:16px">⭐</span> a Christmas theme (compatible with your
preferred UI theme, supports both light & dark mode)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size:16px">⭐</span> a new full-screen WallpaperMorph</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size:16px">⭐</span> dynamic snow blizzards (with performance
optimization)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size:16px">⭐</span> and further, more or less hidden features!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">If you would like to download it, you are cordially invited to do so! Everything you need to do is:</span></p>
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<li>Update your Trunk image</li><li>Do it:<br>
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<pre style="font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace; font-size:13.6px; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; padding:16px; overflow:auto; line-height:1.45; background-color:rgb(246,248,250); border-radius:3px; word-break:normal"><span class="pl-c1" style="color:rgb(0,92,197)">Metacello</span> <span class="pl-k" style="color:rgb(215,58,73)">new</span>
<span class="pl-c1" style="color:rgb(0,92,197)">baseline:</span> <span class="pl-s" style="color:rgb(3,47,98)"><span class="pl-pds" style="">'</span>XmasDecorations<span class="pl-pds" style="">'</span></span>;
<span class="pl-c1" style="color:rgb(0,92,197)">repository:</span> <span class="pl-s" style="color:rgb(3,47,98)"><span class="pl-pds" style="">'</span>github://LinqLover/XmasDecorations:release/packages<span class="pl-pds" style="">'</span></span>;
load.</pre>
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</li><li>And don't be afraid of Christmas Every Day, the integrated Christmas Detection™ will automatically undecorate your image on January, 6th (unless you opt-out via Apps > XmasDecorations)!</li></ol>
<div>The graphics were created in cooperation with a few fellow students and a lot of Google; but in the main, I'm an enthusiast in terms of software design, not of graphics design, so don't expect an artistic masterpiece :P</div>
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<div>The source code can be found on <a href="https://github.com/LinqLover/XmasDecorations" class="OWAAutoLink">
GitHub</a>. I don't need to say that every kind of feedback or contribution is highly welcome.</div>
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<div>I would like to wish you lots of fun with XmasDecorations & Squeak in general, and a merry Christmas time, online as well as offline.</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>Christoph</div>
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