Enlightenment 0.21 Up To RC State With Better Wayland Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Enlightenment 0.21 Up To RC State With Better Wayland Support

Mike Blumenkrantz has tagged the release candidate of the upcoming Enlightenment 0.21 release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Enlightenment-E21-RC1

[Iksf]

Planning on giving it a shot when it hits 1.0 in 2080.

But yea, wish I could like enlightenment but its just too damn weird for me.

[89c51]

Planning on giving it a shot when it hits 1.0 in 2080.

But yea, wish I could like enlightenment but its just too damn weird for me.

Weird compared to what?

[david_lynch]

I've always liked enlightenment, but it always seemed not quite finished.

[Leinad]

So, it will be full wayland support in 0.21? :-D

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=mtyzndy

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Enlightenment-0.20-Released

[89c51]

So, it will be full wayland support in 0.21? :-D

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=mtyzndy

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...-0.20-Released

There are some bugs.

Known Issues ------------- * Internal window (eg. filemanager), DnD is not currently functional - Requires various improvements * Restarting Enlightenment kills some applications - Requires upstream external protocol support, XWayland improvements * XWayland clients do not smoothly resize - Requires upstream XWayland improvements * The first-launched X11 client will sometimes fail to show - Requires upstream XWayland improvements * Some issues related to keyboard layout switching - Requires various improvements * XWayland crashes on start - Requires XWayland release - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95337

and while the Xwayland stuff they can't fix i doubt they will fix the DND and keyboard layout stuff. Would be nice though.

[c117152]

...i doubt they will fix the DND and keyboard layout stuff. Would be nice though...

I HIGHLY doubt drag-n-drop won't get fixed soon. And since most of the other problems are Xwayland related, it all should work fine in xorg

Regardless, the EFL and Enlightenment are really in a good place right now. Things feel very solid with 20.8 to me. If I wasn't such an i3wm addict, I'd probably use it all the time, and not just for non-development.

Edit: BTW, the stable Enlightenment releases are now done by Simon Lees off OpenSUSE and it's naturally available there as soon as possible.

[89c51]

@c117152 the DND and keyboard layout issues are wayland only.