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Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Re: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Post by avereveard »

wvh wrote: post #19

This is a flash from an almost forgotten past. I'm happy people are still using and even improving Enlightenment. I used to run Enlightenment in the late nineties and early 2000s, first by itself, then with Gnome bar. At some point Gnome turned hostile on power users and I switched to KDE, leaving also Enlightenment behind, as well as any extensive customization of my desktop. At that time, the ubiquitous themes.org…

same, especially compiz era after good drivers and accelerated compositing became ubiquitous was wild

Re: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Post by fragmede »

pjc50 wrote: post #31
pjmlp wrote: post #9

Oh, people are still using Enlightenment. My last time I used it was still in the 1990's, before I settled into Afterstep and soon afterwards Windowmaker. In what concerns my use of GNU/Linux, it was CDE on others. Apparently nothing big came out of Enlightenment and Tizen.

I was also a huge fan of WindowMaker. Simple, effective, stylish without getting in the way. Also allowed me to have a vertical taskbar, which I stuck with even on Windows until Win11 has taken that from me - because Mac is the arbiter of taste and everyone must copy it.

Oh man, that takes me back.

shell=C:\LiteStep\litestep.exe

Re: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Post by exitb »

It's such an underrated advantage of open source operating systems that if you like some bit of software, you'll likely be able to use it for decades to come. Even a core bit of software like a window manager. I grew to hate how you need to conform to someone's whim at Apple or Microsoft, or else you get locked out of new features.

Re: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Post by UncleSlacky »

BozeWolf wrote: post #11

I am still waiting for e17. I stuck to e16 for a long time until ubuntu got a thing which was much more convenient than gentoo. I had the classic setup with the apache helicopter on the background and virtual desktops with preview. On MacOS however. To this day i am still using a single screen, with virtual desktops ordered the same way.

They're up to e27 now, it even supports Wayland.

Re: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Post by malux85 »

madaxe_again wrote: post #15
malux85 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me too! Looking at my old windows 98 machine and then at slackware Linux with enlightenment lured me to Linux and began a lifelong journey!

SuSE 5.1 for me, as it was what I could easily get the CD-ROMs for, as bandwidth was just a single 64k ISDN at school.

Yeah that was the reason for me too, in order to get the distro CD ROMS I had to mail $10 to some random address and wait 4 weeks for them to be mailed back!

Re: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Post by UncleSlacky »

pjmlp wrote: post #9

Oh, people are still using Enlightenment. My last time I used it was still in the 1990's, before I settled into Afterstep and soon afterwards Windowmaker. In what concerns my use of GNU/Linux, it was CDE on others. Apparently nothing big came out of Enlightenment and Tizen.

Moksha (a fork of e17) is the main desktop for Bodhi Linux, an unofficial Ubuntu-based distro:

https://www.bodhilinux.com/moksha-desktop/

https://github.com/JeffHoogland/moksha

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