Hey Civil,

Do we know when E 0.17 will be released?  Will this be included in MDK
8.1?  Or at least a beta release?
tdh

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| On Saturday 15 September 2001 19:53, Tim Holmes wrote:
| Sawfish is a "light" WindowManager which can support GNOME as a desktop 
| manager.  There are others not supplied by mandrake that can do the same, and 
| there is Enlightenment which can also rrun under GNOME.
| 
| GNOME is a desktop environment designed to run with a compliant window 
| manager, not alone.
| 
| Enlightenment is heavy on the eyecandy but surprisingly fast.  Sawfish is 
| extremely fast which makes up for its lack of native features (except a nice 
| ability to run themes), so GNOME with Sawfish is much much faster than GNOME 
| with Enlightenment.  As a result, many GNOME users would call E a resource 
| hog.
| 
| Now we are approaching the time when E will have its own File manager, and 
| everything about E has been rewritten for reliability, modular organization, 
| code reuse and speed.  The result is that we will likely have Four Desktop 
| environments to choose from, KDE, GNOME, Xfce and E version 0.17.
| 
| The situation could be nicer for the user.  We could have 5:-).
| 
| Actually, I think the competition inspires innovation and I don't want to see 
| us (any of us) settle on one WM/DM any time soon.  GNOME and KDE have 
| recently become both more and less friendly to newbies, doing more for them, 
| but offering a huge number of new options and a number of new features that 
| can best be characterized as "engineer's toys".  Now the new E promises a 
| lightweight, fast approach to doing most of the same things with the added 
| feature of some of the greatest eye candy available on a flat screen.
| 
| Users will tell us by their usage patterns which idea is more viable.
| 
| Civileme
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