E17 Available From CVS

Lisandro writes "As stated by Rasterman on his site, Enlightenment 0.17's window manager is now available on CVS, which means you can build e17 completely from it, as it is, and give it a try. Of course, it's still work in progress, and lacking in several areas, but it is usable, and looks as gorgeous as ever. Also, in related news, the XFCE team, one of the best 'light' desktop environments for *NIX, has released the first release candidate for XFCE 4.2, with a lot of long due improvements." About e17, Rasterman's note says "It's limited in its support for ICCCM, no NETWM support and it has no iconification, virtual desktops, shading, keybindings or button bindings, but it does WORK (just). it's also fast and beautiful."

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Took a while

[pediddle]

It's limited in its support for ICCCM, no NETWM support and it has no iconification, virtual desktops, shading, keybindings or button bindings, but it does WORK (just). it's also fast and beatiful."

Okay, so it's been 4 years since the last major release, and yes, I used to love Enlightenment back in the day, but the world has moved on to bigger and better things (KDE, Gnome, OS-X). Enlightenment still has a lot of catching up to do before it is newsworthy!

Re:In case of slashdotting

[Anonymous Coward]

This is idiotic, you're think going to slashdot SourceForge?

blah@blahhost:~$ host www.enlightenment.org
www.enlightenment.org CNAME enlightenment.org
enlightenment.org A 66.35.250.210
blah@blahhost:~$ host 66.35.250.210
Name: vhost.sourceforge.net
Address: 66.35.250.210

Re:Not to rain on the parade, but...

[Nothinman]

E has always been more of proof-of-concept project than an environment for everyone. I believe it was started in the first place for Raster to learn how to use things like imlib for another project and it just grew from there. I use E16 on my machines because it's light, fast and looks good. But I wouldn't recommend it for most people.

Re:fluxbox

[Hal XP]

Making fluxbox and its kin usable winds up requiring I run half a dozen other apps. Xfce is those apps, bundled together. You can think of it as Gnome done right.

Incredible! Does this mean a base installation of XFce includes Firefox, Abiword, Emacs, GVim, The Gimp, GPhoto, Inkscape and Scribus? These are the apps I require in order to make Fluxbox usable.