Enlightenment DR17 On the Linux Desktop 356
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.
LiveCD (Score:3, Interesting)
More potential available? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:My Heart! (Score:1, Interesting)
True, though.
Enlightenment version numbering.... (Score:4, Interesting)
Slashdotted (Score:3, Interesting)
Speedy Enlightenment? (Score:3, Interesting)
Linux usually gets much more efficient use of the same HW than Windows. But I never saw GUI lethargy like this with Windows installed on that Inspiron.
WTF? (Score:1, Interesting)
If you and the modders bothered to take a look at TGTSoft's FAQ [tgtsoft.com], you'd notice that they explicitly state that StyleXP is not a skinning engine.
What is Style XP?
Style XP is not a skinning engine. It uses Microsoft's built-in visual style engine, but enhances it by providing many useful tools. Style XP can import, select, rotate, and manage Themes, Visual Styles, Wallpaper, Logons, BootScreens, Icons, and Explorer Bar. Future versions may support sounds, cursors, screensavers, and packages of all the above.
Pfft, what a shameless plug for a sub-standard product! Jeez louise...
Re:Fedora & E17 (Score:4, Interesting)
It's also fun running E17 inside a nested X server under E16. I had to pick up my Mac-loving graphic-artist friend after I showed him what a fully eye-candy E17 (animated background, animated menus, animated titlebars, etc) looks like without shutting down my X session.
e17 (Score:5, Interesting)
It's really not ready for prime-time yet, although it is certainly close. Maybe they've fixed these bugs in the last few weeks, but I noticed-
* sometimes windows refuse to close after their owning process has been killed. These things just linger on the screen, filled with random garbage.
* multiple monitors profoundly confuse the desktop-switching gadget and pager
* evidence CVS was broken, so there's no e17 native file manager and I resorted to using nautilus
And of course it needs an e17 native version of eterm... that will be excellent when it shows up
The themes available so far don't really make use of the way-cool stuff edje can do... e17 is going to be really amazing once more themes and applications are built with its core libraries.
Re:Fedora & E17 (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Got it on FreeBSD (Score:2, Interesting)
Cairo (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Not trying to start a flame war (honest)... (Score:5, Interesting)
Most of you that have never looked at enlightenment probably think it is just another windows manager. However, as others have stated under this topic, enlightenment is built on top of libs that are meant to increase speed, stability and useablitly. Yes, e17 is lacking useablitly right now because it is still under heavy development and there are still changes being made to the libs themselves and the window manager will be the last thing being updated.
Re:Stable, beautiful.... (Score:3, Interesting)
(Note that we have deferred the problem again to another layer, but gnu screen is "as stable as any terminal multiplexor I have used, maybe more".
http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ [gnu.org]