I'm interested in E17, but it looks like the development there has
taken much longer than I'd like. I'm not a fan of the 16.x releases
at all.
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:37:08 -0600, Eric G Ortego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been an enlightenment user for about 2 years now. And although
> I really really like it I have seen some pretty damageing memory leaks
> in a few versions.
> When I first tried enlightenment I was happy with fluxbox and just
> trying out other options, but enlightenment is so configureable and
> easy to script that it makes it worth the issues I have run into.
> My script for enlightenment that shades all windows.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> for window in `eesh -ewait wl | awk '{ if ($3!="0") print $1 }'`
> do
> eesh -ewait "wop $window shade ?" | grep on || eesh -e "wop
> $window shade"
> done
>
>
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 05:31:32 -0600, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've been trying out Enlightenment again and I'm impressed by it's speed on
> > modest hardware, quality and organization. There are plenty of places to
> > get
> > screen shots on the web, so I'm not going to put any of mine up today but I
> > will share what I liked here.
> >
> > My first exposure to the Enlightenment desktop was through Red Hat 5.x on
> > 150
> > MHz MediaGX with 64MB of RAM and no third mouse button. My screen
> > resolution
> > was a dismal 800x600 too. It was not very useful to me that way, though
> > enjoyed eterm for years.
> >
> > I just tried it again with Sarge on a 233MHz PII laptop with 196MB of ram
> > and
> > was very impressed. A little extra screen real estate, memory, processor
> > speed and patience go a long way towards usability. The default burshed
> > metal is still a little clumsy looking but Blue Metal, Ganymede and Shiny
> > Metal are beautiful and don't take up much screen. WM, KDE and Gnome
> > applications play well with it, though konsole's transparency did not work
> > for me.
> >
> > One of things I liked best is the pager and desktop/workspace configuration.
> > You can expand your workspace to multiple screens within each desktop and
> > edge flip though each screen. You switch between desktops by clicking on
> > the
> > pager or the bar on top. The pagers, which are not always on top, show this
> > as one huge workspace with a box around the current space. The pagers also
> > show a nice thumbnail of the application and you can move the application
> > from one screen to another by drag and drop.
> >
> > Enlightenment will work well for organizing multiple projects the way I do
> > it.
> > I've typically dedicated single desktops to specific computers and projects.
> > For instance, I'll have a ssh -X session to my wife's computer on a desktop
> > called "pooh", her computer's name and a desktop called 7530 for my
> > shielding
> > class. If there's an application I need for shielding from another
> > computer,
> > I call it up and move it to the shielding desktop. Sometimes, I start to
> > feel crowded and that's where Enlightenment's multiple screens will come in
> > handy. I'm not going to feel crowded with six desktops. To get the same
> > effect with other window managers, I might have to make the virtual desktop
> > larger than the screen size. Enlightenment does this out of the box and
> > it's
> > edge flipping and pager controls make getting to the other desktop faster.
> > Getting more desktops is easy with the GUI configuration tools.
> >
> > I'm going to be working with it on the laptop for a few weeks to see how it
> > goes.
> >
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