Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Apr 2008 19:25 UTC
Enlightenment 0.17, the big, long awaited new release of the Enlightenment project, has been in the making for a long time now - since December 2000, to be precise. E17, as it became known, is a complete rewrite of Enlightenment, complete with a set of base libraries (the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) turning it into a full-fledged desktop environment, complete with its own set of base libraries for building applications. Last November, main developer Carsten 'Rasterman' Haitzler stated that there were only two big to-do items left blocking the release of E17. We're now a few months ahead, so I contacted Rasterman to see what's what.
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I'm sure many will disagree, but I feel like with the work that's been thrown behind Gnome and KDE recently that E17 is losing it's relevancy.
I agree. I think it's been so long coming that die-hard Enlightenment users have long since switched to other window managers or desktop environments. E17 is going to have to win over a whole new set of users. That means there is going to have to be some significant advantages over other environments in order for it to gain any mindshare in today's FOSS world. I guess the best thing E17 has going for it now is its relatively small footprint.