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Elive Beta: Enlightenment Sans Commitment

Posted by timothy on from the giant-candy-pacifier dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Elive, the ultra-slick Debian based Enlightenment (16.7 and 17) liveCD project has released version 0.1 for download. See the package and features list for more information. A screenshot tour is also available."

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  1. E-Pants? by Tim_F · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is why Linux is never going to be a widely adopted desktop OS. What is E-Pants (for that matter, what is an Epplet? why not simply call them what they are, applets?) and what does it do? The names for some of the Epplets were straightforward, but E-Biff left me confused as well (at least it had a letter icon indicating that it might be an inbox monitor). This is even worse than KDE and GNOME beginning every application name with K and G respectively.

    If you guys want Linux to be as widely used as Windows and OSX you have to standardize. One (visible) desktop manager and a standard set of applications. Leave all the tweaking in a nice graphical environment instead of forcing the user to edit text files, and for heaven's sake make the preferences screen for each application at least slightly similar and in the same location. It doesn't help when the prefs for FireFox are in a different menu location for Windows than for Linux or OSX.

    Eye Candy is all well and good, but unless there is a solid and unified environment behind it (like Windows and OSX) Linux is never going to go anywhere on the desktop. Present a true alternative to those two OS and the PC manufacturers will take notice.