Disable Christmas animation

ika-chan · 2019-12-17T11:53:59.000Z

How do I disable the Christmas animation?

Some people like me do not celebrate Christmas at all, and sadly in my case, I found it offensive due to personal experiences (long before joining OSM) that I cannot disclose.

I’m sorry, I appreciate that many of you like Christmas: that is fine, but in my case, it’s brings back really bad memories.

SomeoneElse · 2019-12-17T14:22:00.000Z

ika-chan!:

How do I disable the Christmas animation?

Where are you seeing a Christmas animation?

RicoElectrico · 2019-12-17T14:54:49.000Z

People say that there is snow or something like that in JOSM (I haven’t run it today).

SomeoneElse · 2019-12-17T15:36:37.000Z

RicoElectrico:

People say that there is snow or something like that in JOSM (I haven’t run it today).

So there is - some sparkly falling winter-festival-neutral snowflakes. A logical place to comment about that would be at JOSM’s tracker, I think:

https://josm.openstreetmap.de/query?status=assigned&status=needinfo&status=new&status=reopened&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&col=time&order=priority&report=1

However, I would go easy on them there because I’m sure it was simply intended to be a “delightful feature”.

ika-chan · 2019-12-17T18:03:00.000Z

I forgot to say it was JOSM. I am very sorry about the oversight.

GerdP · 2019-12-17T20:20:54.000Z

It was introduced with r14578. It seems there is no simple way to disable it unless you want to change the date on your computer.
I suggest to open a JOSM ticket.

Martin_Borsje · 2019-12-17T21:00:20.000Z

Relax: It is not Christmass, it’s winter snow. And yes: as 90% of worlds’s population lives on the N hemisphere we may cal it globally winter this time of year.
Better snowflakes in JOSM than all the commercial activities down town.

Maarten_Deen · 2019-12-18T06:55:16.000Z

Yeah, idea is nice, but I also don’t think this is really something you should spend time on. Fortunately it is only visible when no map is downloaded but I think it is a stupid thing to do.
It are also not snowflakes but stars.

Looking at this piece of code I think it will be on from december 17 until december 31.

	    private static boolean isChristmas() {
	        Calendar c = new GregorianCalendar();
	        c.setTime(new Date());
	        return c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR) > 350;
	    }

No, it is not about christmas. Not at all.

muralito · 2019-12-18T17:46:26.000Z

Martin Borsje:

Relax: It is not Christmass, it’s winter snow. And yes: as 90% of worlds’s population lives on the N hemisphere we may cal it globally winter this time of year.
Better snowflakes in JOSM than all the commercial activities down town.

Oh, I have no problem with christmas, but as you said the snow in these days is only for the north. Summer is coming here…
Proud to be in the remaining 10%, let’s hope for a global community that respect all minorities.

Besides that, this easter egg consumes extra cpu and energy.

Maarten_Deen · 2019-12-19T06:31:49.000Z

muralito:

Besides that, this easter egg consumes extra cpu and energy.

And we all wonder why JOSM keeps growing and growing with every change they make.