On Thu, November 22, 2007 15:54, Paul Tansom wrote:
> Enlightenment is actually pretty good. I used it for around a year about
> 5 or so years ago having realised that I was using it to underpin Gnome
> and Gnome wasn't giving me any functionality I'd miss if I dropped it
> and used raw Enlightenment.
Enlightenment was what originally persuaded me to get a PC,
so that I could install Linux and play around with it. It was
very pretty, but ran like a dog on our Sun server at work.
Ran fine under Linux on my P2.
> Having said that it had a new version that seemed to stall in
> development iirc, and I'm not entirely sure whether it is out even now.
> The website talks about E17 (erk!), but it seems to only be available
> through CVS which makes me think it is still in the pre-release stages.
DR17 has been in development for years. There's CVS ebuilds for
Gentoo (enlightenment-0.16.9999), which sometimes work. There's
some nice work going on, but it's happening very slowly. There's
even been talk about a mobile edition for it (and I've seen links
to Enlightenment from the Zaurus site, but never any actual
packages for installation).
I still use DR16 as a fall back window manager when I want
something lightweight.
DR17 is basically a desktop environment rather than just a
window manager, and comes with file managers, task bars and
other things found in the likes of Gnome/KDE.
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Sam. xmpp:sam@???
