Very nice said Christoph ! 

Merry Christmas to you, to our group and whole World ! :)

bye
Nicola





> On Dec 15, 2019, at 11:09 AM, Thiede, Christoph <Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear all!
> 
> 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!
> I would like to thank you for all the energy you daily put into development and maintenance of Squeak, and for being such a great community.
> </laudation> ;-)
> 
> This year, I had the idea to celebrate Squeak with a small collection ofXmasDecorations. 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:
> 
> <pastedImage.png>
> 
> Features include, but are not limited to:
> ⭐ a Christmas theme (compatible with your preferred UI theme, supports both light & dark mode)
> ⭐ a new full-screen WallpaperMorph
> ⭐ dynamic snow blizzards (with performance optimization)
> ⭐ and further, more or less hidden features!
> 
> If you would like to download it, you are cordially invited to do so! Everything you need to do is:
> Update your Trunk image
> Do it:
> Metacello new
>    baseline: 'XmasDecorations';
>    repository: 'github://LinqLover/XmasDecorations:release/packages <github://LinqLover/XmasDecorations:release/packages>';
>    load.
> 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)!
> 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
> 
> The source code can be found on GitHub <https://github.com/LinqLover/XmasDecorations>. I don't need to say that every kind of feedback or contribution is highly welcome.
> 
> I would like to wish you lots of fun with XmasDecorations & Squeak in general, and a merry Christmas time, online as well as offline.
> 
> Best regards,
> Christoph

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