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Enlightenment DR 0.18: Improved Compositing, Wayland Support

Posted by timothy on from the now-that's-some-conservative-versioning dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Enlightenment DR 0.18 window manager has been released one year after E17. Enlightenment 0.18 provides many new features, with demanding compositing, Wayland client support, improved systemd integration, new Enlightenment modules, and stability fixes."

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  1. Compare to the release of 0.17, this is *FAST* ! by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many years did the 0.17 release took ?

    This release only take one year !!

    Wow ! Congrats !!

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  2. Re:Compare to the release of 0.17, this is *FAST* by Chas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The thing is, from E16 to E17, you had a complete rewrite of the entire project that redefined what it did and how it worked.
    So yeah, it took a while.
    While I'm not denigrating what E18 has accomplished, it's building off a lot of the foundations that were already laid.

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  3. lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    User experience while crashing improved; some users have reported over a 200% improvement here.

    1. Re:lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Enlightenment user here. The devs are not kidding, I can confirm there is a roughly 200% improvement when segfaulting.

      In E17 when it recovered from a crash all the minimized windows would un-minimize, most would move to the first desktop, and a few others would somehow go to random desktops. In E18 all the windows go back to their original desktop and conserve their iconified status. An E18 segfault doesn't really interrupt your workflow in any meaningful way, it's quite pleasant.

    2. Re:lol by darkHanzz · · Score: 2

      Does it really segfault that often, that that's part of the 'experience'. That's quite bad. Last time I tried enlightenment (486dx, with 24MB ram), at least it was fairly stable.

  4. Re:Lame by gbjbaanb · · Score: 2

    One thing that hurts open source adoption is this trend to stay at 0.x versions even if you practically have a good, polished product.

    quite true - I looked at it and thought its a new thing and was about to pass it by simply because of that pathetic version number.

    OSS guys need to know that the version is a little bit of marketing that can make you look a little better - obviously its not the whole story, not unless you're Microsoft, but it needs to communicate some information about stability and project progress.

    I understand there was a bit of a rewrite between 0.16 and 0.17 - and that's hopeless numbering, it should have gone from 1.0 to 2.0 there.

  5. Re:Good news by eneville · · Score: 2

    If on the other hand you want to take a look at a productive minimalist desktop, I suggest you try evilwm [6809.org.uk], which I think is the best [usenix.org.uk]. If you like GNU Screen you may also like Ratpoison.

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  6. Re:Desktop is so 2011 by Lisias · · Score: 5, Funny

    Aren't desktop computers basically dying ? They keep on trying to replicate something that users already no longer use. Pretty sad

    Edit: even the captcha agrees with me: sadists

    You don't have a job, do you?

    Because, you know, not everybody makes a living browsing the Facebook using a tablet...

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  7. Re:Lame by Dorianny · · Score: 2

    Most open source software have development roadmaps with very clear goals of what would constitute a major release milestone. The developers of open source software are truthfull and open with their version numbering system unfortunately closed source software companies are not and often stick a major release number to minor upgrades or beta or even alpha quality software. This is why many people will not install closed source software until a service pack or 2 later.

  8. Why I don't use Enlightenment. by MouseTheLuckyDog · · Score: 2

    One day something went wrong during a routine upgrade and I lost KDE. Since it would take a while to fix, I decided that this would be the perfect time to try out E17.
    I started my laptop since my desktop was down for other reasons.

    I got this big mess of white on black stuff, I couldn't tell which windows were which and could get barely anything to work. Obviously someone had chosen a really horrid theme. So I went to freenode, caught a couple of E17 developers in their channel. Instead of getting advice on how to change thde theme to something more usable, I get berated because I was using debian stable. What was I to expect from a distro that uses such old packages.

    With advice like that I decided I would be better off with KDE.