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EFL Preview Release: Asparagus

Posted by Hemos on from the get-it-and-grow-strong dept.

HandyAndE writes "For everybody out there who has been waiting for Enlightenment 0.17 or been thinking what alternatives are there to Gnome/GTK and KDE/QT this is an important day for you. The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) today have an (albeit pre) release named Asparagus. From the E site: 'We are pleased to announce the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries Preview Release, codenamed "Asparagus"! After years of work, we've come to a place where it is time to start opening these powerful tools to the wider world to use.' " Read more for more information.

Libraries included in todays release are:

  • ecore-1.0.0_pre7 (loops, timers, X, evas and config abstraction)
  • edb-1.0.5 (database library)
  • edje-0.5.0 (powerful theming library)
  • eet-0.9.9 (theme compression format)
  • embryo-0.9.0 (embeded scriptiong for themes)
  • emotion-0.0.1 (DVD / video wrapper for libxine)
  • epeg-0.9.0 (super-fast JPEG thumbnailing etc)
  • evas-1.0.0_pre13 (canvas library)
  • imlib2-1.1.1 (image manipulation)
  • imlib2_loaders-1.1.1 (image loaders)

Get your browsers pointed to sourceforge for a copy and see what EFL can do for you!

2 of 30 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Enlightenment has really dated itself by tolan-b · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let me get this straight, the default theme of a five year old project doesn't look nice to you any more so the completely re-written codebase which is now a very strong set of X libraries and will be a complete desktop environment, is irrelevant?

    Idiot..

  2. Re:screenshots by Bastian · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Agreed on GNOME and KDE. I find it rather annoying that so many Linux, *BSD, etc. users will whine up and down about how much Windows sucks, but are also hopping on the bandwagon of trying to make the unix as much like Windows as possible.

    I long to see a group of thoughtful geeks with some good knowledge of human-computer interaction sit down and say, "How do we want our OS to behave, really?" because right now with Gnome and KDE the plan seems to be to just get as many features out the door as quickly as possible without any realy overall planning and to heck with anyone who is noticing that they are both becoming serious contenders for the throne of "crappiest UI, ever."

    And the geeks who are fed up with this go in completely the other direction and work hard at turning X into a text terminal that can also display graphics.

    Meanwhile, I also sit around living with WindowMaker because it's the cleanest GUI I can find (with it's own set of problems, of course.)