Enlightenment E17 Is Another Step Closer To Release

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Enlightenment E17 Is Another Step Closer To Release

Are you looking forward to the official -- and long-awaited -- release of Enlightenment's E17 in the near future?..

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE4MjM

[disi]

Wasn't E16 released just a couple of years ago?

[vtorri]

the LinuxCon event is not in Prague but in Barcelona...

[vtorri]

Wasn't E16 released just a couple of years ago?

not, it was released far before.

[disi]

not, it was released far before.

That was supposed to be funny, because it looks like Elightenment has a release once a decade or so.... apart from that I used E17 before and its perfect for mobile devices etc.

[PeterKraus]

I've been using E17 since 2007. It has been rewritten at least once since then, but it's been quite stable for all those years - more than LXDE or KDE4 I would say. The main peeve I used to have with it was - in case of power outage, the config folder used to get pretty broken, so I kept a backup of "the configuration" just in case...

[Pallidus]

e17 suffers from KDEsitis, big fat badly drawn icons all over the place, text and icons badly coppled together

ultra complex, confusing, configuration windows

looks like it was made by a 7 year old with crayons, crude and amateurish

the only good thing is that it's really fast and snappy, I gather the fastest one I've tried


but here's what a lightweight desktop should look like, clean, consice, simple and professional

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yfa-O3ublQ...buntu12.10.png

[PeterKraus]

Don't blame the devs if you can't configure it. There's always the clearlooks theme for E, if you want something much less bling.

http://exchange.enlightenment.org/fi...screenshot.png

And there's many others...

http://exchange.enlightenment.org/themeGroup/show/1674

[89c51]

e17 suffers from KDEsitis, big fat badly drawn icons all over the place, text and icons badly coppled together

ultra complex, confusing, configuration windows

looks like it was made by a 7 year old with crayons, crude and amateurish

the only good thing is that it's really fast and snappy, I gather the fastest one I've tried


but here's what a lightweight desktop should look like, clean, consice, simple and professional

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yfa-O3ublQ...buntu12.10.png

While i'll agree that the default theme and icons scratches my retina the UI/UX is far more logical than other DEs. The theme and icons can be fixed.

On the configuration settings there are a few things that can be made better IMO ie. better grouping more thoughtful placement of the buttons and selections and maybe make the windows that pop up modal.

I also thing it needs more native apps ie NetworkManager, a proper desktop music player (xmms2 based maybe??), a desktop manager (is elsa alive???) , a text editor etc. There have been project but don't think any is still alive.

[vtorri]

I also thing it needs more native apps ie NetworkManager, a proper desktop music player (xmms2 based maybe??), a desktop manager (is elsa alive???) , a text editor etc. There have been project but don't think any is still alive.

there is a connman module, iirc

desktop music player : 'enjoy', but we can do better, i think. 'Enjoy' has several bugs.

'elsa' has been renamed as 'entrance' (like the old session manager) and it is still alive

text editor : there is one which is currently underdevelopment, but we are lacking manpower. The dev is also a core dev, so he has not a lot of time.

i'm myself working on a multi doc viewer ala okular. It's alive too

there is also a new game : http://brunodilly.org/blog/escape-from-booty-bay/ which is more a proof of concept for the EFL and games