Enlightenment Returns To Bring Ubuntu To ARM

mu22le writes "Enlightenment, the daring window manager that disappeared from our collective radar years ago, is back to bring Ubuntu to ARM. The bet that E developers made years ago to neglect 3D, compositing, and make a fast and versatile 2.5d engine may have finally paid off. The current popularity of ARM-based devices could be a niche that the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries can fill comfortably."

Comments

Re:Fonts are too small

[BadAnalogyGuy]

What is this? A config file for ants? How can we expect to increase the font size if we can't event read the words?

Re:No Compositing???

[BadAnalogyGuy]

The problem with inner beauty is that it's usually hidden under several layers of outer ugly.

That's funny

[earnest murderer]

Because at this point Apple's computers and OS are _by far_ the most conservative in appearance compared to other major players.

Re:Fonts are too small

[TheRaven64]

The elephant in the room is that the only reason that anyone is considering E17 is that there are no proper drivers for the hardware. The current generation of ARM SoCs that are being used for this kind of application all come with a GPU that can handle OpenGL ES 2.0. That means that they have a fully programmable pipeline and are massively overpowered for running something like Compiz. With proper drivers, they could handle pretty much any effects that you wanted to throw at them, including things like ripple effects (which require pixel shaders).

E17 doesn't use 3D acceleration, so it suddenly has an advantage when you are on a platform with missing 3D drivers. Add 3D drivers, and suddenly E17 is using the CPU while everything else is using the GPU, and E17 will be dumped because it gives you less battery life.