
Rasterman, the lead developer of the Enlightenment project,
speaks about the future of Enlightenment, including the project's focus on the embedded world (Rasterman works at
OpenMoko now), the relationship with commercial vendors, reorganized leadership, and even some hints at an upcoming release.
"The primary thing of importance is getting E17 out the door. It's actually looking petty good. Only 2 really big TODO items left. I'm doing a theme revamp. The Default theme has very much aged. The gold bling isn't incredibly popular. I'm working on something I think people will love - and it still shows off E. It will replace the current default - and will also knock off some of the comment the default theme so its better documented for people to build new themes from and learn Edje."
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2005-11-01
In related news, 3D Realms announces that Duke Nukem Forever is due "just around the corner".
Couldn't resist... DR17 has become such fodder for jokes and legend, I wonder whether it will really even be relevant once the developers are satisfied that it's reasonably stable for mass consumption (if they even ever commit to such a claim). I used DR16 as part of my primary desktop for years, but once it slipped into obsolescence and DR17 was remained an unusable work in progress with a nebulous development schedule I had to move on to greener pastures.