On 17/09/17 02:15, Michael Z Freeman wrote: > Hi, > > So far definitely a fan ! E seems to have retained the original spirit of > linux WM's that started in the mid to late 90's. Reminds me of Afterstep. > User/individual centred. The desktop is my space right ? So why do Gnome > and KDE feel like Grand Designs did a remake of my home while I was away > based on blueprints I was never shown ? > > I came to Enlightenment mainly through pursuing Wayland. I'm not a fan of > Gnome Shell or KDE and so I discovered E. I have latest E from git working > completely in X11 and it loads for Wayland (latest git) but has a few > problems (see my other message, I forgot to mention it only sees one of my > two screens). > > So here are some questions. > > 1. Where did all the themes go ? I've found a couple of working themes. > Other's are too old and don't load. One of the main sites seems to have > decided to put most of its themes on divshare which is now defunct. >
The backend has changed substantially over time to make it work much better but as a result all the old themes aren't compatible, i'm slowly porting some across but its a long slow process as enlightenment themes are huge. But now that the theme API is stable once a theme is ported it should remain working for a long time. > 2. What about other modules ? This site - > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/enlightenment#.22Extra.22_modules - > mentions extra modules like the "scale Windows" one but I can't find it > anywhere. > Again to support wayland most of enlightenments backend had to be rewritten to presume a compositor exists and many of the older 3rd party modules haven't kept up with the API changes > 3. Other applications. I'm finding more all the time like the theme > designer. Are these all collected in one place ? > https://www.enlightenment.org/about has some but there is no central place, alongside the ones there are these, they have all had a stable release etc, there are many others that people are working on that haven't been released yet. * Lekha is a good pdf viewer https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Lekha * epymc is a great media center https://github.com/DaveMDS/epymc * eperiodique is a periodic table http://eperiodique.sourceforge.net/ * Espionage is a dbus inspector https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/projects/espionage/ (This should be moved to the main e website rather then phab) > Michael Freeman > > -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
