On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 19:33:17 +0200 Quelrond <quelr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi, > > >First of all, I would like to thank all the team – you are creating a >great desktop environment! > > >I’ve just updated my laptop from PCBSD 10.1 to FreeBSD 11, and I’ve >reinstalled EFL, Enlightenment and some EFL apps. I don’t remember the >old version of EFL, but it was Enlightenment 0.19.x. Now I am on Efl >1.18.4 and Enlightenment 0.21.7, both installed from FreeBSD binary >packages. > > >The most important thing I want to mention is that the stability of >the DE is greatly improved. There is no freeze I had frequently on >E19. The principal source of freeze – main menu – now works perfectly. >Another important point – the file manager don’t freeze the whole >system as before (I deactivated the module on E19 as the system was >unusable with it), it’s fluid and fast. And the bonus – some modules >are working now! ;) > > >Unfortunately, there are still some problems I want to talk with the >developers. > > >The most important problem – efreetd. We’ve already discussed this >problem in the mail list, I’ve opened the ticket on phab (T5130). One >MUST disable this daemon to be able to use a laptop, if not – the CPU >and HDD I/O are consumed permanently. I tried to search a little in >sources, but it’s really difficult to understand – how does it start >and why is it started so frequently. I can try to debug it if someone >helps me. > > >Another problem (really important for me, but probably not visible for >99% of users) – mouse bindings. I’m using a Logitech mouse with >additional buttons on scroll wheel (right-click and left-click). These >buttons were perfectly recognized by E19 and I’m used to use them for >windows list scrolling (like alt-tab). Unfortunately, on E21 it works >ONLY if the mouse pointer is placed on desktop or on window title. The >“Action Context” is set to “Any”, but it still does not work inside >any window. Note, that it was perfectly working on E19. > > >As about modules – I’ve tried some ones: > >- Temperature is showing 25 degrees always, even when efreetd is >transforming my laptop to iron; > >- Mixer is perfectly working with PulseAudio… till restart of >Enlightenment, it freezes completely after ctrl-alt-end and restart of >E; > >- Cpufreq is showing correctly the current CPU frequency, but the icon >stays always the same, with the pointer blocked on minimal position; > >- Battery works fine; > >- Keyboard works fine. > > >It would be really nice if someone can recommend me something to solve >my problems. If you consider that additional tickets should be opened >on phab – I’ll do it. > > >Best regards, > >Peter > I'm not an Enlightenment developer, but I have used it since the mid 90s. I will tell you that I know it's a labor of love, and currently almost all of the love is Linux bound out of necessity. I'll bet that if you stood up a cloud vm running FreeBSD 11 with a full dev environment setup on it, and admin'd it, and gave all e devs root on it to develop and test on it, maybe you even get it into their CI setup, your issues would get solved a lot quicker. And maybe you can also do some more debugging to help steer developers toward the issues, as you suggest above, and even help write some tests maybe. How bad you need it? -- Regards, Christopher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
