Hi, Thanks for the info.
Michael On Sun, September 17, 2017 6:47 pm, Simon Lees wrote: > > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
