Hello
people,
I've finally found
the time to sign up to this list and figured i'd pop on and say a quick
(or not so!) hello. I'm one of those people that used to use
Enlightenment way back in (19??, dunno, 95 maybe, 97?!). I seem to remember
slackware 3.2(ish) with E12 or E13 although i guess that could be way off, it's
irrelevent though. Then I drifted off for years favouring KDE and have
rediscovered E just recently.
Over the last 6
months i've been working on a project for work that has meant having to develop
for AIX so having a linux partition on my laptop has been the easiest way to go.
Haven't got to cross-compiling, maybe i'll get to that one day. Anyway, i was
nearing the end of a vital stage two weeks ago when the worst that could
probably happen did and my laptop died.
When i rebuilt it i
decided that as i was using thunderbird and firefox for the usual things
and netbeans for java development, it seemed about the only thing keeping
me in kde was kdevelop (for my C/C++ development) and seeing as i knew there
were alternatives to that i figured i'd had enough of installing gigabytes of
crap to get a desktop environment and tried going back to E.
Things went well and
i'm very impressed, although i was still at the firefighting, "get my laptop
back and the code out of the door" stage until the end of last week. My
current setup is Mandrake 10.1 (i was already a silver club member, so it seemed
sensible to stick with it) on a Dell Latitude D600 (wireless and everything
working nice). Enlightenment E16.7.something. I pinched the blue curve backdrop
from the Mandrake install and am using the 023glass theme (i
think).
Try as i might
though i just couldn't get used to living without a file manager. This was
dissapointing t me, but i guess the years of KDE have rubbed off on
me.
So this afternoon i
went down the Evidence route.
Things were a little
shaky with the source compile and in the end i gave up with that as i shouve
been writing code not compiling other peoples really. I don't recall off my head
what the sticking point was but i decided to give the SUSE RPMs a shot just for
the hell of it, i could always back it out afterall.
So, I installed
about 7 RPMs (ecore, edb, edje, eet, embryo, evas, evidence itself) and it seems
to be working a treat. Nice one!!
Did i ought to be
overly concerned about the fact that they were SUSE RPMs? I guess not since it's
working, but i don't really want to hit a problem further down the line on this
work machine :) I think i have to use --nodeps on 1 of the rpms, but that was
one of the very first so i probably ended up resolving the dependencies later on
anyway.
Only question
relating to Evidence that i have is can i reduce the size of the icons? They're
beautiful and i really like it, but they're a bit large for my
liking.
And finally, is
there much more to getting E17 to work seeing as all of the above RPMs were from
E17 iirc? Can the two coexist? E16 & 17 that is? If i have to remove E16
then i'd be reluctant for now, as i say, this is a work laptop and i can't spare
even half a day if it goes completely pear shaped. At least i'd have to be
fairly creative with a few excuses!!
Anyway, plenty
enough ramblings from me :)
I figured i'd had
such a pleasurable time rediscovering Enlightenment lately though that i'd share
some praise to Rasterman et. al. and not just make it all
questions!!
Cheers,
Martin.
http://www.guddler.co.uk
