After a period of using Enlightenment DR16 I decided to check out DR17 again.
Wow!
This thing has taken a massive step forward. It seems a little more touchy than before, and currently a bit prone to seg faults, but some of the new touches are great.
Like the run command that as you type brings up suggestions from listed programs above, and commands below, all flying about smoothly and looking fantastic.
Or the now insane amount of customisation that you can do in the Configuration menus and title bar menu.
The gorgeous animations that play as files are loaded in the built in file browsers.
There are so many little touches that just scream quality. Yeah so the default theme looks like scank, the only up to date theme I can find (or want to find) Milky’s, looks amazing.
All this and really low memory footprint and CPU demand means that this project is going to be incredible when finished!
so what exactly is enlightenment? I assume it’s a release of an operating system, is it the new mac OS? (the screenshot looks mac-y) or is it a new release of Gimp? maybe a skin for and OS? am I being an ignorant fool?
Heh, sorry - it is a Linux X-windows Window Manager / Desktop Environment.
It skins the windows, provides window behaviour and also throws in a launcher bar / widget holder and some good widgets as well as a file manager.
All this is built upon a very fast and flexible graphics library that allows complex animations and effects to be built into the interface with very little damage to system resources.
It is what makes using the graphic enviroment both enjoyable and fast.
E17 is cool. I used it off and on for a while, but it was just too buggy in the past. Maybe I’ll give it a run again and see how it feels. Screenshots are always what drive me back; it’s just so beautiful.
Tried E17 myself a few months back on Gentoo, it proved to be much nicer looking than KDE, but now I am sticking with Beryl and XGL for the bling-factor.
