Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Mar 2007 13:58 UTC, submitted by michuk
"The performance of desktop computers increases year by year. This gives the programmers great opportunities to further improve the desktop experience of the users. However, what should you do when you have an old computer that is not capable of running the latest and hottest software? How can you benefit from the great software that is X.org when you can't run a desktop that takes advantage of its best features? No need for upgrading your PC, when you can have a usable alternative with the current one. Let me introduce you to Enlightenment E17 - the window manager with minimal hardware requirements that may amaze you."
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RE[2]: this article is crap
by nutshell42 on Sun 4th Mar 2007 22:33
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Member since:2006-01-12
I'm not the biggest fan of these kinds of rants either but your reply isn't any better. I really hate this "if you know what's wrong with X, you'll have to be able to make a better X" fallacy.
I can point out dozens of flaws in Vista without being able to write a better OS.
I can review games and movies without being either a game designer or a producer.
I can tell you whether a football player (soccer, whatever) is crap without being able to play in the Premier League.
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not a single line on the underlying technology, not a line on EFM (e17 file manager), not a line on some great tools Enlightenment has brought (eterm, esd, the amiga's screen implementation (different from virtual desktop), not a line on problem one would expect running e17 in conjuction of nautilus or kfm (I did with e16 ran my desktop with gnome and enlightnement), not a line on windows maker docklet support (it works fine with e16 so does it with e17), not a line of the cpu time consummed by the panel (it zooms all the screen and displayed little icons of windows, which you can move directly on the pnael in order to make them swith to anotehr screen or virtual screen)
it would have been cool to compare the eyecandy of e17 with the one from a genuine ubuntu +xgl+compiz
just tell us if you can make e17 use openGL or if Rasterman still manages to be faster with regular x11 system call (remember this thread on slashdot ? amazing
I start to be fed up with all these "COol I managed to install something on my distro" articles, man I want real news, real debate, real information.
Osnews used to be really cool and no matter how hard eugenia has been bashed she was great for in depth reviewing...
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