EFL Preview Release: Asparagus

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!

Comments

Enlightenment has really dated itself

[Tim_F]

Is it even relevant today?

Hold off with those mod points for a second there bucko. Hear me out.

It's been how long since E.16 was released? Over 5 years. Sure it was impressive when I was running Mandrake 6 on my parent's P75 with 40MB of Ram and a 4 GB hard drives in the basement, but today it just looks andient. The brushed metal look that it originated has not aged well at all. The cleaner (and sexier) curves of KDE are what get me off these days. Let me know once E.17 is released (and looks a little like OSX) and maybe I'll care. But right now this is way too little way too late.

E has become about as irrelevant as Gnome and XFCE in the Unix DE wars.