Thomas Gstädtner Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:58:58 -0700 >I don't think E needs promotion, there has been a lot over the past >years (not only in the "community", also in big magazines with fancy >articles and pictures). >I think all E needs is a release, ease of use comes with that (as the >problem is not missing usability of e17 itself, but much more to get >it running at all for less advanced users). :)
Hi all, i just joined the list (Hello everyone ;) and had originally intended not to post too much too early, but just coming from outside of the community, I think I have something useful to contribute here. I second Thomas' post. My impression is that e is actually quite widely known as a lightweight window manger with hedonic qualities exceeding the mainstream. I think most people in the target audience have heard of it. The website does a great job on communicating the artistic spirit of e (in practice I think this means e17) though its design and graphics. But at the same time, it advises people not to use it because it's not stable, and it introduces visitors to a lot of abstraction by telling them about all the visions that are behind it (desktop shell etc), all of which require a great deal of interpretation of the yet-to-be enlightened. While I totally agree, I think people get hooked better on e if they could actually go on trying e17. I personally wanted to try it for I think 4 years now, but it was just so much easier to '$ sudo apt-get install xfce4' on my box, so I didn't bother. I think a great share of the potential users and contributers are running Ubuntu. What do you think about the idea of just maintaining a ubuntu repo like wicd[1] does? You could put a warning in the installer, say it is unstable, pre-alpha and likely to insult the users mother. But It will get e out to a lot of people who might get impressed by the eyecandy and the clean architecture, and maybe also so annoyed by bugs and missing features that they might report or even fix them. It is just a question of lowering the entrance barrier. I think OzOs [2] have most of what is needed for this in place. I hope this is of any use. If there is any naive short-circuiting in my reasoning, please tell me and keep in mind that I have only been using e17 and looking into efl for short time, and that I am only writing this in the hope that an external point of view is helpful. [1] http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php [2] http://www.cafelinux.org/OzOs/ cheers, Siemen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
