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Enlightenment Lives
Anonymous Coward writes "The Enlightenment Project, far from dead, is pleased to announce the DR16.7.1 release of the Enlightenment Window Manager. With tons of fixes, a massive overhaul of the internals, and several new features this release is a must try for those who haven't run E in a long time. The window manager that redefined the way a desktop can look is still going strong."
They had their chance to create something usable, in time. Now, it's too late. They are too late.
Enlightenment 0.17 feels more like an experiment more than anything else. Gnome and KDE and even XFce are usable today, E17 is not. People won't be switching that easily to something like E17, especially now that Gnome and KDE are more intergtrated to the system rather than simple window managers with some nifty effects on top.
I used enlightment for a couple of years before switching to kde since a year . I have to say that E was a really intuitive and lightweight WM ( I had a really slow computer then .. switched to kde after geting a better machine) . Anyone out there who use E as their primary WM on resonably new machines ??
I think going as far as to say "redefine the desktop" is a bit over the top.
While it had a few bits of eye candy, it had no extended functionality over any of the other options at the time.
Let us forgo the zealotry and remember E as it was: The script kiddy's first Linux desktop.
last time i heard E was a drug. i honestly think fvwm is a much better wm. but, last time i heard opinions were like assholes.
You need people like me so you can point your fuckin fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So what that make you? Good?
Anyone got any decent screenshots of this release?
The ones on the website look ugly.
Nick (wanting to see something special!)
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Cheap troll, but I'm bored.
Don't like EFL / Enlightenment? Don't use it. That is the power of open source. Your bitching about inefficient memory usage when you probably haven't written a single line of code in your life should not and does not affect the ability of others to write and use code that you don't approve of. That is the power of ope source.
If you took the time to see what the E team had been up to, you'd see that their approach is the way of the future - they are pushing the boundaries for the good of everyone else. Imlib-1, which Enlightenment-0.16.x was based on was also the basis for Gnome-1.x image rendering. Similarly, Imlib-2 and EVAS will be the basis of more powerful desktop systems down the road.
Anyway, when you leave school and go on social security, you will be able to afford another 64MB stick and all your memory problems will be a thing of the past.
hrm cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/enlightenment && make install
oh it worked what do you know. Don't waste your time with gentoo's attempt at a knock off of the *bsd ports collection. Get the original that works!
Saying dependencies are annoying is admitting you either run slackware or run a system without decent package management.
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