on http://enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about&l=en the Enesim link should be changed to http://code.google.com/p/enesim/
Vincent On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Enlightenment SVN <[email protected]> wrote: > Log: > moar textsssszt > > > > Author: raster > Date: 2012-12-19 23:30:14 -0800 (Wed, 19 Dec 2012) > New Revision: 81424 > Trac: http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/changeset/81424 > > Modified: > trunk/web/www/p/about/e17/en-body > > Modified: trunk/web/www/p/about/e17/en-body > =================================================================== > --- trunk/web/www/p/about/e17/en-body 2012-12-20 06:58:49 UTC (rev 81423) > +++ trunk/web/www/p/about/e17/en-body 2012-12-20 07:30:14 UTC (rev 81424) > @@ -110,9 +110,29 @@ > </p> > > <p> > -E17 is smaller, lighter, faster, nicer and more flexible that your current > WM, and it's old school with a new-school twist. Its farts smell of roses and > world peace has been known to be solved by E. OK. Just kidding (though > really... they so smell of roses!). > +E17 is smaller, lighter, faster, nicer and more flexible that your current > WM, and it's old school with a new-school twist. Its farts smell of roses and > world peace has been known to be solved by E. OK. Just kidding (though > really... they so smell of roses!). > </p> > > +<p> > +In all seriousness Enlightenment is fairly lean. Considering how much you > get in return. It isn't a minimalist WM or desktop, but it is a massively > long cry from the full desktop beasts that are its peers. Enlightenment uses > EFL. EFL was designed to provide the core of Enlightenment, and then some. > But it was targeted at scaling down to things like Mobile phones and embedded > devices. This has meant that there was a large focus on being lean, and > getting a lot of "return on investment". This of course has paid off for > Enlightenment itself. > +</p> > + > +<p> > +It only loads what it needs to, when it needs to. It caches what it no > longer needs to avoid always re-fetching it, but these caches eventually get > flushed or expire, so long-term it won't just grow without bound in memory > footprint. Rendering can be done with the CPU and/or GPU. It's up to you. > (though at the moment we don't give you any UI controls over the rendering > engine for UI content, but the compositor allows the choice - the core > toolkit is capable of it). > +</p> > + > +<p> > +An E17 install on the exact same system as Unity on Ubuntu, simply replacing > unity can save you 200M of RAM. Not to mention be snappier and more > responsive. You will never know until you try, so why not at least give it a > go? You run fewer processes since E17 now handles being the panel, > filemanager, window manager and compositor (and more) all at once. It > amortizes the cost of all these common components into a single process. > +</p> > + > +<p> > +Enlightenment and EFL provide over-the-top power when it comes to > re-skinning or theme changes. You can change not just colors and background > images, but entire animations, multiple layers of imagery scaled, aligned and > laid out to please. It's like Photoshop or The GIMP, but on steroids riding a > train of camels. If anything it may be an Achilles heel given how much power > is exposed, but hey, that's what we have. If you are an artist, designer or > skinner, you could hardly do much worse than E17. Wallpapers don't just have > to be images. They can be complete interactive animations. You can provide > multiple resolutions of your imagery all in-line in the same file and have > the "best one chosen automatically" based on size. You can have it animate > base on input events, or time. And not just the wallpaper. Anything in E17 > can do this. Fade layers in and out, change their sizes, image content and > more. Make your art come to life. > +</p> > + > +<p> > +And for the tweaker heads amongst you... there is an option for every > occasion. We don't go quietly into the night and remove options when no one > is looking. We sneak in when you least expect it and plant a whole forest of > new option seeds, watching them spring to life. We nail new options to walls > on a regular basis. Options are good. Options are awesome. We have lots of > them. Spend some quality time getting to know your new garden of options in > E17. It may just finally give you the control you have been pining for. > +</p> > + > <hr> > > <h3>Becoming Enlightened</h3> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. 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