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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. 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 :)