After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out 259
The Enlightenment front page bears this small announcement: "E17 release HAS HAPPENED!" The release announcement is remarkably spartan — it's mostly a tribute to the dozens of contributors who have worked on the software itself and on translating it into many languages besides system-default English. On the other hand, if you've been waiting since December 2000 for E17 (also known as Enlightenment 0.17), you probably have some idea that Enlightenment is a window manager (or possibly a desktop environment: the developers try to defuse any dispute on that front, but suffice it to say that you can think of it either way), and that the coders are more interested in putting out the software that they consider sufficiently done than in incrementing release numbers. That means they've made some side trips along the way, Knuth-like, to do things like create an entire set of underlying portable libraries. The release candidate changelog of a few days ago gives an idea of the very latest changes, but this overview shows and tells what to expect in E17. If you're among those disappointed in the way some desktop environments have tended toward simplicity at the expense of flexibility, you can be sure that Enlightenment runs the other way: "We don't go quietly into the night and remove options when no one is looking. None of those new big version releases with fanfare and "Hey look! Now with half the options you used to have!". We sneak in when you least expect it and plant a whole forest of new option seeds, watching them spring to life. We nail new options to walls on a regular basis. We bake options-cakes and hand them out at parties. Options are good. Options are awesome. We have lots of them. Spend some quality time getting to know your new garden of options in E17. It may just finally give you the control you have been pining for."
perfect match! (Score:0, Funny)
Perfect match to run Duke Nukem forever!
Users don't want options (Score:4, Funny)
Users don't want options, don't these guys get it?
Yours Truly,
GNOME Development team
Re:12 years to achieve..... (Score:5, Funny)
Some people actually like Unity's out of the box configuration!
[citation needed]
Re:anti aliasing? (Score:5, Funny)
There's an option for everything.
How do I turn on Clippy?
Released on 12-21-12 (Score:0, Funny)
This is what the Mayans had in mind all this time.
I can't wait to install it on Hurd and see how it looks running Duke Nukem Forever.
Re:anti aliasing? (Score:5, Funny)
Go to Settings/Advanced/Mu and switch the Polish slider from 62% down to the radio box marked 14.89%, then a checkbox marked "Microsoft Experience" will automatically appear on the left. Select it and type Ctrl-Enter.
A dialog window appears: "Are you Sure?" [OK] [Cancel]. Press OK with the mouse.
A dialog window appears: "Really?" [OK] [Cancel]. Press OK again.
A dialog window appears: "I don't think so. I can't let you do that." [OK] [Cancel]. Press Cancel.
You should now see the familiar Start button at the bottom of the page. From now on, Clippy will appear every second time you click the left mouse button. There are two cases:
If this dialog appears: "ZenClippy. It looks like the grasshopper can handle Enlightenment" [OK] [Cancel] you must press Cancel to not return to the default E17 mode.
If this dialog appears (about %50 of cases): "ZenClippy. It looks like the grasshopper can't handle Enlightenment" [OK] [Cancel], then you must press OK to not return to the default E17 mode.
To return to the default E17 mode, just type Ctrl-Alt-Del.
Re:I gotta hand up over here... (Score:4, Funny)
A desktop environment is just an extremely bloated window manager.
Re:anti aliasing? (Score:3, Funny)