Wednesday, November 21, 2007
beauty.
Most of you won’t care about this, or maybe none of you will. I’ve always been a fan of Enlightenment(window manager for X windows(linux)), and have been checking in on the upcoming version for sometime, which is Enlightenment DR 0.17. The current stable release is 0.16.8.10 or something to that effect. I’ve seen screen shots of it, and it’s just pretty. DR17 will be a little different than previous versions..before it was a window manager, which is basically something that sits on top of a shell(n0ia, correct me if i am wrong please). Well, DR17 is going to act as a shell, and will handle things that gnome would have done underneath Enlightenment in the previous versions.
A while back I attempted to install from CVS, which I didn’t really know what I was doing, so needless to say I didn’t ever get it to work. Not only because I didn’t know what I was doing, but also the whole this needed this dependency, and that needed another dependency, or things just didn’t compile right.
I did a random check up on it yesterday, and was reading up on it as well. I happened to read that there are a few unofficial packages for a few different platforms. One of those being Fedora(which is the flava that i run). So, I followed the link and kind of read up on it while I was at work, sent the link in an email so I wouldn’t forget about it.
I got home and followed the few directions needed to executed to download and install it. It’s so nice when you don’t get a bunch of errors about dependencies or compilation problems. And that means, i had no problems and everything was installed smoothly. I booted up into it, and was in awe at the eye candy. Just little things were neat. The way the icons bounced on the icon bar, and the way the menu item glimmered like light was shined on it when the cursor moves over it. Basically, I was thoroughly impressed with it, and have had no glitches yet. Even though this version isn’t quiet considered “stable” yet..it seems pretty damned stable. So, if any of you *nix nerds out there wanna check out some eye candy, I recommend going to this site:enlightenment. Scroll down to the “Download Enlightenment DR17 and the EFL”, and click on which ever link suits your platform.
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Awesome stuff, I’m gonna have to check this out maybe tomorrow.
Does it seem to use less resources than E16? That was always my complaint with Enlightenment. It just didn’t run smooth enough for me (probably because the computer I had wasn’t very good, but still)
And you’re somewhat right about the way E16 was with Gnome. Gnome is the desktop manager - which runs atop Xwindows (Xorg now)and also handled the window management. Enlightenment was basically an enhancement to that and added it’s own window managing (ie. decorations and purdy stuff)
I would imagine that moving to a fully self-reliant window manager/desktop manager, E17 runs quite a bit better and more stable.
This was the most boring post ever. Thank you for wasting 2 minutes of my life.
n0ia: yes, it does run faster and smoother. i’m very pleased with it, and will continue using it. and did you cancel your cell?
mays: shut up bitch!
Nah, I just didn’t pay my bill. Oops! I’ll get it back on eventually. If you need anything just e-mail me.
I’m thoroughly impressed. Now to find some themes!
Ugh. I had E installed, then some of the modules wouldn’t compile, so I removed all the packages and started installing from CVS (which is risky since it’s all bleeding edge) and had troubles compiling it.
It seems to be installing right now, so hopefully everything will work out and my modules will work.
did you like what you saw so far though?