A big DITTO to that! You guys are cranking! On Feb 25, 2014 10:36 AM, "William" <wjck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been following Enlightenment since day one. I think I first saw it > announced on Chips n Dip, the predecessor to Slashdot. Needless to say, > for a long time there was not much to follow. These days you folks are > absolutely on fire. It is wonderful to be running Enlightenment full > time again for the first time in a decade or so. I enjoy using it > immensely and very much appreciate the work of all who contribute to > make it happen. > > Keep up the fantastic work, > > William > > On 02/25/2014 07:43 AM, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > > = EFL 1.9 is Out = > > > > After three months of development work and only one day behind the set > > schedule > > we are proud to announce the release of version 1.9 of EFL, > > Elementary, Evas > > Generic Loaders and Emotion Generic Players. > > > > == Download == > > > > http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/efl/efl-1.9.0.tar.gz > > fd4703edb56c01b713f92849fb15f6ca3d866227ce4abff2d90b08244cd99a99 > > > > > http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/elementary/elementary-1.9.0.tar.gz > > 95cb9ade6c1f135b673555d927d13b5e06986353047178125346abdf6c2b4d82 > > > > > http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/emotion_generic_players/emotion_generic_players-1.9.0.tar.gz > > 9447839047b087b0293b2ed6c453249919f66e5c4f62e252a7b7e4f996c2ac5f > > > > > http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/evas_generic_loaders/evas_generic_loaders-1.9.0.tar.gz > > d26546adf61db7521f9d46f2baedcb645af72497fc259e93907026970d42d794 > > > > > > ---- > > > > = What's New = > > > > Even if we had only three months a lot has happened during the 1.9 > > release cycle. > > We only cover some highlights here for the full list please look at > > the NEWS files > > if you are interested in the details. As usual we have been working on > > fixing bugs, > > optimizing our code for speed and memory footprint and adding new > > features. > > Below we describe just some highlights and by no means provide a full > > list. > > > > == AT-SPI based accessibility features == > > > > New accessibility features based on AT-SPI2 interfaces enabling > > Elementary support for AT-SPI clients (e.g. Orca Screen Reader). > > AT-SPI support currently includes: > > * registering an application, > > * building an application's widget tree, > > * implementations for the Accessible and Component AT-SPI interfaces. > > For AT-SPI2 specification see > > > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/accessibility/atk/at-spi/at-spi_on_d-bus > > > > == Evas Filters == > > The Evas filters are a combination of filters used to apply specific > > effects to an > > Evas Object. For the moment, these effects are specific to the Text > > Objects. > > > > The filters can be applied to an object using a simple script language > > specifically designed for these effects. Commands of these script > > language > > include blend, blur, grow, displace, transform and more. > > > > == Emotion Port to GStreamer 1.0 == > > A long due port from the GStreamer 0.10 API to 1.0 has happened in our > > emotion library. This port implements some missing features, clean up > > code a bit and fix some bugs on the way. Some highlighted changes: > > * Use GstVideoInfo to store the format details inside the sink > > * Add support for pixel-aspect-ratio > > * Store video format information in GstVideoInfo for the different > > * video streams > > * Use GstAudioInfo to store the audio format information > > * Implement initial support for GstNavigation interface > > * Implement setting of audio/video channel > > > > == Evas text improvements == > > A lot development time was spent on optimizing the evas text handling. > > Speed as well as memory improvements combined with many bug fixes to > > make the code more correct and handle corner cases. We also added > > support for 4bit and rel 4 bit compressed font glyphs as well as > > the long awaited > > font fallback for eet/edje and non-fontconfig queried fonts, > > fixing international > > text in Terminology. > > > > == Support for XPresent extension == > > Ecore_x gained support for the XPresent extension of X.org. > > The upcoming Enlightenment 0.19 release will make first use of this. > > > > == Edje Edit Enhancements == > > Another area with a lot of ongoing work was edje edit. From API > > additions > > over bug fixes and general improvements a lot was done here. Edje edit > > can be seen as some foundation work for graphical edc/edj editors. It > > is > > needed to access and change the theme files. We hope to build upon > > that > > to provide better tooling for efl development later. > > > > == Statistics == > > During this release cycle efl received 783 commits with 598 files > > changed, 33338 line insertions and 11352 line deletions. > > > > During this release cycle elementary received 576 commits with > > 637 files changed 29482 line insertions and 13469 line deletions. > > > > ==Changed Dependencies == > > * Emotion in efl now needs GStreamer 1.x (Evas generic loaders still > > * need Gstreamer 0.10 - sorry for this we hope to fix that at some > > * point) > > * EFL now needs luajit by default. If you want to stay with lua 5.1 or > > * 5.2 you can use --enable-lua-old during configure. > > > > ==Building and Dependencies== > > > > If you have an existing EFL or Elementary install, you may wish to > > delete its header files and libraries before compiling and installing > > to avoid possible conflicts during compilation. If you are compiling > > the above, please compile them in the following order: > > > > efl > > elementary > > emotion_generic_players > > evas_generic_loaders > > Please refer to the respective README files in each release for a full > > list of dependencies, explanations on configure flags and other > > relevant information (Just scroll down to see the README already > > displayed nicely). > > > > EFL > > Elementary > > Emotion Generic Players > > Evas Generic Loaders > > Recommended dependencies are for all of the above are: > > > > bullet > > libpng > > libjpeg > > gstreamer (1.x) (ensure you have all the gstreamer codecs you > > need/want. Evas generic loaders still need gstreamer 0.10) > > zlib > > luajit (optional lua 5.1 or 5.2) > > libtiff > > openssl > > curl > > dbus > > libc > > fontconfig > > freetype2 > > fribidi > > libpulse > > libsndfile > > libx11 > > libxau > > libxcomposite > > libxdamage > > libxdmcp > > libxext > > libxfixes > > libxinerama > > libxrandr > > libxrender > > libxss > > libxtst > > libxcursor > > libxp > > libxi (2.2 or newer) > > libgl (opengl/glx or opengl-es2/egl) > > giflib > > util-linux (limbount + libblkid) > > systemd / libudev > > harfbuzz > > systemd > > libwebp > > vlc (libvlc) > > poppler > > libraw > > libspectre > > librsvg > > It is suggested you add the following options when building EFL to get > > a better experience: > > > > --enable-xinput22 \ > > --enable-multisense \ > > --enable-systemd \ > > --enable-image-loader-webp \ > > --enable-harfbuzz > > On linux to get framebuffer support you may want to also do: > > > > --enable-fb > > --disable-tslib > > If you want wayland support also add: > > > > --enable-wayland > > At runtime if you want thumbnailing for DOC/PPT/XLS etc. files also > > provide: > > > > libreoffice > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. 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