Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Nov 2007 12:29 UTC, submitted by muzzle
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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2007-11-04
I've been using e17 for about 2 years now. Has been mostly stable although there are the occasional glitches, as it still is under heavy development. To answer your question, there are a couple of things that attracted me to e17.
1. It does look very good but remains fast
2. It is highly configurable.
3. Theming possibilities are huge (I still have to finish my first theme however)
4. Did I mention fast ?!
5. I really like the fact that you do many of the tasks with just a menu that you get from clicking on the desktop. I believe fluxbox et al. have the same thing, however e just looks a whole lot better.
6. That is actually one of my main things I really don't use a lot of the desktop functionality that kde and gnome offer (hardly ever use a filemanager etc.) So e.g. fluxbox would be sufficient for me, but just does not look good enough. Also e offers some functionality on top of fluxbox that is quite convinient, like gui configuration ...
Hope you'll try it out sometime soon