Hello! Thank you for developing Enlightenment. It has proven an excellent, versatile, and stable window manager. It has spoiled me for other, lesser environments.
E16 has proven more and more difficult for me to get installed on newer versions of operating systems, especially on 64-bit systems (due to limitations in freetype and freetype2, mostly, not E16 itself), so I recently took the plunge and installed E17. On the most part I am quite pleased with it, but noticed that it lacked the "Multiple Desktops" feature, providing only a 2D array of virtual desktops for managing my workspace. Some searching around led me to the Enlightenment discussion forums on forum.enlightenment.org (where alanm helpfully pointed me in your direction) and sourceforge, where I found this thread in this mailing list's archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=b057382e0702010939q126539e0t3b7eca63f2108ac6%40mail.gmail.com ---------------------------------------------- Re: [e-users] E17 - Mulitple Desktops From: Nathan Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2007-02-01 17:39 I believe raster decided to drop multiple desktops for e17. On 2/1/07, Brian Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand how to configure virtual desktops. The feature that I'm > looking for is how to create _multiple_ independent desktops. Each of > which have virtual desktops. This is how E16 was configured out of the > box. The mouse scroll wheel was used to flip between each independent > desktop. You could use edge-flip to switch between desktops 1-4 then > scroll the mouse wheel to jump to desktops 5-8. ---------------------------------------------- Further searching did not yield up additional context surrounding the decision to drop multiple desktops from E17. I am very interested in seeing this useful feature returned to Enlightenment. Might I ask why it was removed? Was there a lack of interest in the feature? Did it make additional development more difficult? Was it confusing new users? Knowing the "why" will help me figure out feasible options going forward. I have looked for a CVS log in the cvs snapshots, but did not find any. The e17 CVS module is co'ing while I write this letter, and I am about to look through there for hints. I would appreciate any insight! :-) Respectfully, -- TTK Ciar, Software Engineer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
