Enlightenment Returns To Bring Ubuntu To ARM

mu22le writes "Enlightenment, the daring window manager that disappeared from our collective radar years ago, is back to bring Ubuntu to ARM. The bet that E developers made years ago to neglect 3D, compositing, and make a fast and versatile 2.5d engine may have finally paid off. The current popularity of ARM-based devices could be a niche that the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries can fill comfortably."

payed

[Anonymous Coward]

"payed off"
"payed"

Go back to elementary school before you disgrace the English language further, kiddo.

Re-check

[BlackHawk-666]

I always liked Enlightenment, though found it impractical for getting things done. Might be time to take another look at it if it's seeing development work again.

Re:Fonts are too small

[BrokenHalo]

I should point out that Enlightenment puts a higher focus on having a light footprint than usability...

Funny you should say that - back in ~'97 or so I used to use Enlightenment as a WM with Gnome. In those days we all thought of it as a big badass resource-hungry monster. I never did get the hang of using Enlightenment as a full desktop environment, however. I have no problem with editing config files, but I never bothered spending the time learning how to get applications launched. Sort of defeats the object if you have to fire them up from an xterm... ;-)

Hopefully it's come along a bit since then.

Re:Fonts are too small

[pchan-]

E17 doesn't give you the option to do that without going into the config files and manually editing them. It's not something that is any problem for more experienced Linux users but it is the kind of thing that may hurt adoption of E-17 Ubuntu.

I'm an experienced Linux user. I write device drivers for a living. But I get home, the last thing I want to do is edit configuration files to change settings in my GUI. This is why, after 10 years of using Linux on the desktop, my next computer will be a Mac.

Re:Fonts are too small

[wizardforce]

Editing text config files is common for fluxbox and E17 but Gnome, XFCE and KDE rarely if ever require config file editing to change settings. I would imagine that is a large part of why they are far far more popular than E17 and Fluxbox. People could dig into the config files if they have to but I agree that it's just a "frak it! no more fiddling!" moment for most people.

Re:Fonts are too small

[micheas]

Ironically, when I first tried Enlightenment (in the '90s) It was the heavy weight eye-candy desktop that was sort of the compiz of the day. (I think I had a 300mhz CPU and a Voodoo video card IIRC)

Option for the N900?

[misterduffy]

It's no secret that Maemo isn't exactly allowing the N900 to spread it's wings - perhaps having other OS options such as Ubuntu would let more developers in the door. I know Maemo's Debian base isn't exactly an alienating factor for developers but, given Ubuntu's current prevalence, it opens a few more doors competition-wise.

Would be somewhat indicting of Nokia's choice of OS should an alternative, indepdent platform take off though!