On 7/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, from an outsiders perspective, I thought it might be useful to > pop in a word. > > With regards to being just a WM or being a full desktop environment or > being a desktop shell - you are well on your way to being a full > desktop environment. with that said, I would not have signed up for > this list if you weren't going in that direction - the libraries are > what interests me most, in terms of what I like developing / want to > develop in the future. the set of libraries is faster and higher > quality than any other graphical libraries I've encountered - and > speed, specifically the ability to run high quality software on very > old / slow machines is indeed what first brought me (years and years > ago) to linux.
This is yet another example of how a lot of users (developers actually) are interested in the EFL as a development platform. Since we are seeing this quite often these days, why arent we, as the core EFL developers, doing anything about it to make their life (and their adoption of our work) easier? This is yet another reason to have better task delegation. > so with regards to the expansion from just a WM to much more, as an > outsider, I fully support it, and think it will draw more people to > the project (assuming that is a good thing) > > in terms of managing the codebase, having all changes go through the > mailing lists would be especially helpful to new people, in terms of > getting to know the code, and also keeping on top of new things > happening. time is precious, as mentioned, and having emails that you > can get to whenever is much easier than having to be on IRC at certain > times.... > > beyond that, as my first post to this mailing list, I do want to > commend all the work that has been done so far, it is really quite > impressive; secondly, (and this is a purely selfish request) in what > library / place would you reccommend I start digging. I understand on > a theoretical basis how the libraries work (from reading docs) but > that's not the same as actually knowing the code...so, ecore? or e > itself? or is the bug tracker operational (so I could go and try to > hunt down bugs, which always seems a good way to start). I think this needs to be moved to its own thread Daniel (= -- Hisham Mardam Bey http://hisham.cc/ +9613609386 Codito Ergo Sum (I Code Therefore I Am) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
