On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:28:58 -0600, Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm interested in E17, but it looks like the development there has
> taken much longer than I'd like.
Although still under development most all of the efl and demo apps
compile and run well. I have been useing evidence and entrance for
several months
> 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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