http://www.osnews.com/story/15713/EDE_1_1_released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 26 May 2013 04:19:14 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?158383 http://www.osnews.com/thread?158383 Very Windows-like, based on the screenshots. Not very appealing to me personally, but I can see how it would be great for those converting to Linux from Windows. Some of the older screenshots look like a mash-up of Mac OS9 (icons), Win3.1 (control panel) and Win2k (dialogs). The current version appears to be leaning more towards modern Windows though. Version 1.0.2 with XFT is very clean looking.

I'll have to try this one out, though I don't expect to use it on a daily basis. Sun, 03 Sep 2006 05:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morgan) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?158386 http://www.osnews.com/thread?158386 Ede is a Windows like desktop environment for *nix.

Might have added this little bit more info to the summary as it's not clear what Ede is, especially if it doesn't get in the news often..

It looks nice and useful for those who get lost when it doesn't look like Windows, although it's still rather rough imho. I expect a lot more people using it after it gets more eye-candy. Sun, 03 Sep 2006 06:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JamesTRexx) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?158388 http://www.osnews.com/thread?158388 I thought EDE was dead. It' s a great little DE, and i dont get why hardly any distro targeted at old pcs uses it. I just hope that they'll port ede back to FLTK 2.0 in the future instead of maintaining their own fork, eFLTK. Sun, 03 Sep 2006 06:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (maxx_730) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?158391 http://www.osnews.com/thread?158391 > I just hope that they'll port ede back to FLTK 2.0
> in the future instead of maintaining their own fork,
> eFLTK.

Thats what I hope, too.

Without compliance with the regular FLTK, they can't claim compatibility with any other nice small FLTK app out there, many of which could perfectly fit their desktop.

It is like Gnome used a forked version of GTK not used by and not compatible to a single another GTK app, that should fit in the gnome desktop.

Forking a niche toolkit for an even smaller niche desktop is kinda a dead end, and I wonder what led to the decision to do that. Sun, 03 Sep 2006 07:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (drynwhyl) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?158394 http://www.osnews.com/thread?158394 This is ideal desktop for thin clients. No KDE/GNOME bloat- pure desktop. Especially handy in industrial thin solutions. Sun, 03 Sep 2006 07:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (antik) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?158401 http://www.osnews.com/thread?158401 I think it's a better surprise for people be forced to check the screenshots first Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (postmodern) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?158407 http://www.osnews.com/thread?158407 I don't think the emphasis should be on how windows-like it is, but on: Comparing to other desktop environments, EDE is much faster and smaller in memory space (EDE's window manager use less memory than xterm). (emphasis added). Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l3v1) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?158409 http://www.osnews.com/thread?158409 IceWM with the WinClassic theme, which is also very speedy and lightweight. Is there anything that makes EDE truely stand out? Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pxa270) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?158412 http://www.osnews.com/thread?158412 You like to scare people, eh? *grin* Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JamesTRexx) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?158437 http://www.osnews.com/thread?158437 You've reach the era of Windows 3.11. Opps I guess some folks have beat me to the punch here. Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Drift3r) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?158480 http://www.osnews.com/thread?158480 Good point. That's due to it using a fork of FLTK as a base, right? I've read in the past that FLTK is one of the leanest, yet still functional, window manager toolkits. Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Morgan) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?158505 http://www.osnews.com/thread?158505 You have to consider that EDE is light weight and the main architecture is in place now but it lacks themes so it looks dull. Soon once themes are added and it is polished up it will probably resemble XFCE4. It is always good to have another lightweight DE around especially if your hardware is old and Gnome taxes it too much.

Compare this direction in linux to Windows Vista where people using older harware are left in the dust due to graphics and memory requirments and would have to upgrade. Linux efforts like EDE keep those users with older hardware happy while enjoying new kernel releases and updates to GTK applications such as Gaim.Edited 2006-09-03 16:20 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (buff) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?158557 http://www.osnews.com/thread?158557 Will definately check it out! Sun, 03 Sep 2006 18:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deanlinkous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?159035 http://www.osnews.com/thread?159035 I don't know what the status is, but I do know that efltk is not so dissimilar to fltk2.0. Be nice if they folded themselves back into the fltk2.0 branch and try to cooperatively get something more robust.

I'm not a big fan of the windows look but I like the philosophy of the fltk folks, that being to provide what's needed for a gui toolkit and not more.

That said, I'd like to see a very decoupled layout manager sort of like qt4.0 has. Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bnolsen) Comments