Samsung Sponsors the Development of Enlightenment 199
An anonymous reader writes "The Enlightenment window manager project has shared on its website that it now has the backing of a major (top-five) electronics manufacturer that will be actively sponsoring the project and using Enlightenment on its devices. No manufacturer was named, but Phoronix has dug deeper and found out that Samsung is sponsoring Enlightenment. Phoronix provides independent confirmation along with citing a new Enlightenment program that Samsung sponsored and then released under the LGPL-3. They also have videos of some of the new work to this window manager that Samsung funded."
Seems Obvious (Score:4, Insightful)
It's like Fluxbox in terms of resource use (and unfortunately on flashy little GUI indicators) but looks amazing!
Kudos on this! Let's get windows management handled! It's been so many years of updates on something that should have been handled by now!
LGPL-3? (Score:4, Insightful)
Enlightment is BSD licensed. You can't just change it to LGPL-3.
v2.0? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:LGPL-3? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Seems Obvious (Score:5, Insightful)
Lets hope that Samsung manages to get e17 out of door in 2010.
Wow, I was trying it out 5 years ago and it still hasn't seen a release.
Re:Seems Obvious (Score:1, Insightful)
Enlightenment was awesome about 10 years ago, when it was streets ahead of every other desktop in terms of looks. Unfortunately, it has been in alpha since then, so I'm afraid, in my opinion, it has missed the boat. Pity.
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Re:Kill the X Boondoggle Already (Score:5, Insightful)
Funny how this argument mostly comes from people who know virtually nothing about X. Most importantly, not the difference between the concept, the protocol and the implementation.
And just because it's 20 years old doesn't mean it sucks. How old is TCP/IP? The mouse? The binary system?
Re:E17 is pretty stable now (Score:4, Insightful)
The developers had released a roadmap showing that perhaps it would be ready for a Christmas release.
Did they mention the year? Or at least the decade?
I remember waiting for E17. That was about two years before I switched to OS X, so it must be what, five years now?
Re:I've always liked enlightenment. (Score:3, Insightful)
I last used enlightenment in like 1998 or so, and always felt like it excelled in gratuitous eye candy and infinite customization, but lacked in usability. But I always respected how Raster was willing to try new and sometimes completely wonky things, because that is how interesting interaction is developed.
But I just tried it again, and was underwhelmed (with E16). It is entirely possible that I am just grumpy in my old age, or I'm no longer in the target audience.
Re:LGPL-3? (Score:4, Insightful)
Samsung could, of course, hand over a fist full of dollars to the copyright holders [phoronix.com] and walk away with a copy of the code under whatever license they ask for.
Or maybe I'm just making this up.
Re:Seems Obvious (Score:2, Insightful)
If by "looks" you mean utterly tasteless themes based on The Matrix movies, sure.
2001 called.. (Score:1, Insightful)
It wants its anti-networked display server argument back..
Re:v2.0? (Score:2, Insightful)
Enlightenment is a much lighter DE. I don't think it is going to compete with KDE or Gnome for Desktop mind share. I see it as ending up on mobile devices and maybe netbooks. Also Enlightenment is very NeXT/OSX in look. Linux is right now starting to look like it will big in the Mobile market. Android, WebOS, and Maemo are gaining a lot of ground while WinMo is loosing ground.
Linux can never be the winner. Linux is an option and the users are the winners.
Re:LGPL-3? (Score:3, Insightful)
But Samsung is not the copyright holders. They can release a LGPL fork, but they cannot touch the license on the original trunk.
Re:Kill the X Boondoggle Already (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Kill the X Boondoggle Already (Score:4, Insightful)
The problem with PulseAudio isn't PulseAudio. The problem is that the presently known-to-be-unstable PulseAudio/ALSA/apps combo is pushed to "stable" desktop distros. It's like KDE 4.0 "stable beta" release, only it's taking longer, and people are understandingly getting more impatient.
Some guy out there simply knows that if he has PulseAudio, his sound is crap, and if he removes it using his package manager (which could well be Ubuntu "Add/Remove Software" or something similarly easy), it starts working.
Re:v2.0? (Score:3, Insightful)
Enlightenment has more features than either of the desktops in popular use, when you consider its login manager and file manager as well as support libraries. The major concern I can see would be making it interoperate well with newer Linux desktop standards that have been established since 0.17 started.
Re:Kill the X Boondoggle Already (Score:3, Insightful)
If you want to replace X, the question you should be asking is, what does X do worse than Quartz? There's no point replacing X just for the sake of it - if you want people to think about replacing X, you need to explain what's wrong with X.