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Fernando Meira wrote: |
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> I have recently emerged e16 for trial (I always used KDE) and I haven't |
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> explored it too much yet, but I'm quite happy with it. I'll be looking |
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> for a pretty desktop theme (which I haven't found yet) and arrange it to |
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> my way. |
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Welcome to enlightenment! |
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> However, I been reading in forums about e17, which is still (who knows |
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> until when) development, and I was thinking about if it is worth to |
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> update my e16. How stable is e17? The new stuff worth it? Any comments |
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> about this? |
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For a package which needs the KEYWORD '-*' it runs remarkably stable. Of course |
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you can have bad luck while compiling the live-cvs ebuilds, but if you try again |
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a little later everything builds fine. I update it about 2 times a week, and |
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watch it grow since about half a year. |
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Be warned that most of the configuration for e17 still happens from the |
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command-line. The GUI tools will follow, but that will take some time. I you're |
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not afraid of using the CL, e17 will reward you with the most advanced graphical |
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features you have ever seen from a WM, while beeing incredibly fast and |
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lightweight a the same time! |
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The official enlightment home: |
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http://www.enlightenment.org/ |
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Inofficial Themes, Backgrounds, Icons, Screenshots, Documentation, News: |
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http://www.get-e.org/ |
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> Also, is there any links to HOWTO configure it (e16) and howto |
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> install&use those nice panels that I see on some screenshots? As i |
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> understood, some of them are from e17 libs, but work on e16, right? |
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Which panels are you referring to? Link to screenshot? |
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Christoph |
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