Enlightenment E17 Goes Into Beta

After pushing out eight alpha releases in a feverish pace, Enlightenment E17 is now into a beta state after being in active development for the past decade.

The E17 Beta announcement was made today via Enlightenment.org. Key changes over Alpha 8 from three days ago include:

- Translation updates
- Solaris build fixes
- Improved performance during secure deletion
- Various small memory leaks plugged
- Keyboard config now supports "evdev" as a model
- Pointer slide once again properly sets focus
- Various config dialogs once again resizable
- Icons no longer disappear after dragging them into external applications
- Navigate menu slightly reorganized, now also navigates relative to clicked icons
- Double clicking icons in filemanager with single click activation enabled no longer performs two opens
- Shelf autohide now functions properly in multi-monitor environments
- Shelf autohide more accurate when moving mouse from shelf into external application
- Resizing from bottom border now functional on applications which set aspect ratio (mplayer)
- Pager no longer sometimes loses windows with default theme
- Pager once again works as a desktop gadget with default theme
- Tiling module improvements when using Show Desktop action
- Xmodmap/Xresources/Xdefaults now loaded on restarts
- Fullscreening a maximized window no longer causes window's previous geometry to be lost
- Mixer much more reliable when using pulseaudio
- Various fds will no longer be passed to child processes
- Quickaccess module no longer crashes on windows which have no ICCCM name/class set
- Quickaccess module now functions correctly with windows which do not accept focus
- Illume no longer breaks executable tracking
- Wizard no longer hangs on first-run if efreet is not detected
- Systray icons now scale with shelf size
- [THEME] Illume
- [THEME] Temperature gadget text now readable

The official release of E17 is expected on 21 December, the same day as the expected Phoronix New York City meet-up.