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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!

4 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. e17 apps... by jacksonscottsly · · Score: 4, Informative

    once you've had your way with the libraries, check out the enlightenment apps that use, them. all absolutely beautiful: - evidence -- file browser - entice -- image viewer - iconbar -- a button-toolbar - engage -- osx-like (in the default theme) toolbar - equate -- calculator app - erss -- a desktop rss viewer (gentoo users, most of these apps are ~x86 ebuilds) there are a lot of others, too. All with a remarkably logical and beautiful interface. Evidence has fully replaced all other file browsers on my computer, and is damn close to everything i want (although rendering directories with large numbers of files seems to take a while). Also, i noticed that the new real helix player seems utilize some parts of the EFL -- probably the best move real programmers have ever made, in my opinion. Anywho, enlightenment really makes everyday computing a joyful experience; thanks e team!!!

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    [ you and I are ugly ]
  3. What can it do... by NoMercy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://enlightenment.org/pages/systems.html

    Just take a look at some of those thumbnails and remember to pick your jaw up off the table once your done, my favorite has to be the embeded xine's alpha-transparancied ontop of other xine's :)

  4. Huh? by spitzak · · Score: 4, Informative

    Text output does not vary depending on the window manager.