On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:36:55 +0100 "Denís Fernández Cabrera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Hello, > > I have just built yesterday Enlightenment on my Debian/iBook G4 using > the packages provided at: > http://download.enlightenment.org/snapshots/2008-01-25/ > > They built without problems, and I am using them finely, but I have a > few issues I'd like some feedback on, to see if they can be improved. > > - Compositing: There is a "enable composite" option in Configuration > > Advanced > Engine. Whenever I turn it on, E protests saying that my > current screen does not support composite. This is odd, since XFWM4 > and Compiz do work on my system without problem. yes. this is a known issue. the checks dont seem to be right. this does not enable a composite manager btw - just makes e use ARGB windows instead of shaped windows. it's a misleading option. > - Shadows: E only draws window shadows on the desktop, but not of one > window over the rest. Is this the intended behavior? Is there a way to > have it draw shadows the way Compiz or XFWM4 do? yes it is. as there is no composite manager in e - it is not possible to do otherwise. > - Menus: The application menu is empty. However, previous > (prepackaged) versions of E17 I had tried did display the usual Debian > application menu. read: http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php/E17_and_Efreet > - Performance: Changing desktops is slow and not very smooth (even > without animations... although the animation looks too nice not to try > and have it turned on). I thought that perhaps this would improve > having composite enabled. you likely have driver problems - are you using the vesa driver not an accelerated one? desktop changes (if u dont have different wallpapers) should be instant if u have disabled animations. > Apart from these issues (which are not critical nor affect too much > usability or stability), E17 seems to be working wonderfully. I am > really impressed with the great work put into it --- congratulations > and thanks to the dev team! > > Denís. > > -- > Denís Fernández Cabrera > mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://gatonegro.ceibes.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
