Enlightenment DR 0.18: Improved Compositing, Wayland Support

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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Compare to the release of 0.17, this is *FAST* !

[Taco Cowboy]

How many years did the 0.17 release took ?

This release only take one year !!

Wow ! Congrats !!

Re:Compare to the release of 0.17, this is *FAST*

[Chas]

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.

lol

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:lol

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Desktop is so 2011

[Lisias]

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...