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Enlightenment DR17 On the Linux Desktop

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the zen-and-the-art-of-x dept.

StephenJoiner writes "There's a new review on Mad Penguin of the latest VectorLinux release, which includes the in-development Enlightenment DR17 desktop. As far as I know, this is the first time DR17 has appeared on a production desktop... even as a "technology preview". All I have to say is Enlightenment on VectorLinux is absolutely off the scale." Enlightenment was in Slashdot news earlier for both the involvement with Elive and their use of Epeg bits to deal with thumbnailing.

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  1. "...off the scale" by Picass0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But is it... "Outta Site!"?
    Is it "Off the Hook!!!"?
    Is it "To the Max!!!"?
    Is it "Total Extreme!!!"?
    Is it "Rad!"?
    Is it "Bitchin'!!!"?
    Is it "Narly!!!"?

    I need to sit down, I feel overwhelmed by a case of stupid.

  2. Re:Vapourware by Tet · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    With the pager in E, you can actually *place* the window within the pager...

    Oooh, just like you've been able to do in fvwm for 10+ years now. Oh, and if you look at his benchmark results, fvwm is faster than E17 out of the box, too.

    Incidentally, I'm not knocking Raster here. He's done some wonderful stuff, and for the most part, been quite badly treated by some of the big players. But fvwm rocks.

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    "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
  3. Re:StyleXP by Chanc_Gorkon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, that's an elitist attitude! This is the EXACT reason why Linux has a rough time on the desktop. Users are used to saying well I like this like that and I wish the taskbar was green instead of blue. Linux developers need to design FOR the user instead of themselves if they want to take market share from Microsoft. The goal of developers should be to have peolpe USE their software. I fully believe Raster cares. Otherwise they would not have rewritten Enlightenment which is what DR 17 is for the most part.

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    Gorkman

  4. Not trying to start a flame war (honest)... by mjamil · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What does this window manager do that Mac OS X's doesn't? It seems that it has copied the dock straight from that, and window transparency is already well supported on the Mac as well. I ask not because I'm trying to trumpet OS X; I'm trying to understand whether there's real innovation here, or whether this is being touted only because it's more advanced than Gnome/KDE.