Enlightenment 0.15

It's official: After approximately 17 years of delay and hype, Raster has released Enlightenment DR 0.15. Get it and check out tigert's new theme. Look at the ripples. Play with all the little gizmos. Waste clock cycles and memory with reckless abandon. Its fun.

Comments

*sigh*

[Mandrake]

First off, I can't believe that I actually have to post a message like this out there. But I'll basically put it out there plain and simple: If you don't like E, don't use it. There's tons of FUD out there about enlightenment, people like to bash on enlightenment, etc. No better than people liking to bash on KDE or GNOME or what-have-you. But let's be honest here people - who cares? You don't like it, use something else. You're not going to hurt my feelings. I hardly think anyone should resort to the insult-level about it, though. I read a few select replies to this message through here about different things -
"just eyecandy, no features" is something that's very common up there. Granted, there are a lot of things that are still missing from enlightenment - obviously there are, or it wouldn't have a "0" as the major revision number, eh? *grin* However a lot of people say there are no features without knowing what's really there. Enlightenment isn't all just eye-candy. that's just what it's known best for. There are a lot of features in the 0.15 release.
"bloat bloat bloat" is another fairly well repeated comment that I see people tossing out there - my response to that is if we give you the mechanism to toss tons of graphics in their, it's your job not to abuse it. I'm not in the business of keeping you from over-decorating your desktop to obscenity, but don't blame me for those 12 1600x1200 24bpp background images you want to have on each of your desktops :) Do the math - wondering why your X server jumps up in memory? 1600x1200x3 bytes of memory PER BACKGROUND. turn on shm in imlib and E and share the same background on a bunch of desktops. use tiled backgrounds, etc... otherwise you're asking for the trouble :)
I read another ocmment about how there was 9 months inbetween releases of enlightenment. First off I'd like to point out that up to this point no one has been paid to spend all their time working on enlightenment. and even then on top of that, there are almost-daily snapshots that have been being released of enlightenment for lord knows how long. if a release every other day isn't enough I suppose you can always use cvs updating to get a little more current. if you think that by complaining you can rush out buggier versions that no one working on them is comfortable releasing as a supported version of enlightenment, then guess again. Full releases of enlightenment are fairly sparse because no one wants to put crap out there. I know at least personally I have spent the last week or more ironing out bugs in various things, trying my damnedest to break things so that it wouldn't break on someone else. Raster has, too. Contrary to popular belief these days there's a little concern into what goes out to the public.

Anyways, I'm going to step off the soapbox for a bit. Back to my original point, if you don't like enlightenment, that's cool. there are tons of great alternatives to it out there. run windowmaker (raster and I sat met alfredo last week at LinuxWorld and he's a pretty cool guy, if not a bit quiet) - it's pretty slick if that's what you like. Anyways... I expect to get flamed for this by both enlightenment folks and non-enlightenment folks -- but I just felt like speaking my mind about this for a bit :)
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Geoff Harrison (Mandrake) - http://mandrake.net