Samsung/Enlightenment Developers Are Busy At Work On EFL 2.0

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Samsung/Enlightenment Developers Are Busy At Work On EFL 2.0

Cedric Bail of Samsung's Open-Source Group presented today at the Embedded Linux Conference on EFL 2.0 as part of the Enlightenment project's long-standing goal to provide a new and unified API...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=EFL-2.0-First-Bits-In-2018

[carewolf]

Well, at least the tagline "Time to rethink and make things easier!" is the right one for EFL.

[Anvil]

what if you took " JavaScript " out would that work?

[Nille_kungen]

Will it be enough or will it still be a pain in the @ss to work with?

[Vasant1234]

Am I reading this right ?. They want to provide backward compatibility to EFL1. What a strange idea - ?.
It is time that the GTK and QT team take a look it how things work in the real world.

[Rexerex]

So why they bump version to 2.0 if they maintain backward compatibility? If they are creating new API without getting rid of old one then... https://xkcd.com/927/

[dkasak]

Sounds good Enlightenment has always been the best window manager around, and I assume this is at least in part due to the libraries E devs have built & used. Sad to see people with mental health issues feeling the need to troll every announcement here.

[Vasant1234]

You can always add new API while still supporting the older API. That allows existing applications to run. Unlike KDE and GNOME teams idea of completely throwing the old toolkit and replacing it with a new one. It is no wonder that the Linux desktop is stagnant in terms of the number of applications.

[Awesomeness]

That allows existing applications to run. Unlike KDE and GNOME teams idea of completely throwing the old toolkit and replacing it with a new one.

GTK 2 applications run just fine under Gnome 3.
Qt 4 applications run just fine under Plasma 5.

Don't make shit up.

[TheOne]

GTK 2 applications run just fine under Gnome 3.
Qt 4 applications run just fine under Plasma 5.

Don't make shit up.

And those depend on X Server which Wayland promoters want to get rid off... At least we get Xwayland for backward compatibility