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arjie 13 hours ago [-]
Like almost everyone here I only recall this DE/WM with nostalgia. It’s interesting to see how minimal it is now. It felt like the height of maximalism back then. And on very weak hardware had compositing.
BeetleB 13 hours ago [-]
I would say in the old days (2001-2002) it was more like a "minimax". It was maximal minimalist. It had really fancy visuals that worked on fairly slow hardware. I was blown away.
pjmlp 8 hours ago [-]
For me the old days in Linux land were more like 1995 - 2005, folks on my degree were already using Enlightenment in 1997.
arjie 12 hours ago [-]
As was I. Ran it on a Via pentium-compatible!
asveikau 11 hours ago [-]
I was recently randomly thinking of Cyrix. I never had one but in retrospect I think they were better than their reputation. A lot of people thought of it as a cheap knock-off, so lesser quality. I think I thought that way until I got one of the earlier generations of AMD Athlon a few years later, in the 1 GHz era.
BuildTheRobots 8 hours ago [-]
Remembering e17 makes me extremely nostalgic - in fact, if anyone has a screenshot of the clock circuit-board background with the working 7-segment clock on it, I'd be eternally grateful.
It was lovely to use in the very early days of amd64 as a window manager (along side gtk and kde libs). My absolute favourite was the virtual-desktop handling with multiple physical monitors in that you can switch between virtual desktops in a screen-independent way. Nothing else I've used has hit the same seamless ease.
I remember when this came out. It was so cool to see all effects and nice graphics. I did not even know it still existed. Either way great work and nice to see it back.
tapoxi 13 hours ago [-]
It's been in development for 26 years and still isn't 1.0, I wonder what the criteria for that is.
amelius 12 hours ago [-]
By the time they reach 1.0 we've long switched from working with GUIs to speaking to AI.
pantulis 11 hours ago [-]
It’s great to see the Rasterman himself still doing releases after all these years! Legend!
Arubis 13 hours ago [-]
> Restored the Pants module with skirts, kilts, lederhosen, malloc variants, and translations.
Delightful.
bluepoint 8 hours ago [-]
How does it fare with stability? The golden age version (e16?) was fun but would crash regularly.
v3ss0n 13 hours ago [-]
I can't believe this crash ridden peice of WM Still exist..
It was horror just to setup something.
haolez 12 hours ago [-]
That was always my experience as well. I commend the effort, but I have never been able to use it as a daily driver. Gave up like 10 years ago or more.
v3ss0n 2 hours ago [-]
I started trying like 10 years ago , it looks good but never managed to get it to stable. But forgivable because all the WMs , including gnome (was stable at that time to some point) , and KDE , same as crash heavy as that .
But then KDE become stable so switch to it.
Then Last time i tried to give it a chance was 2022 STILL Same broken WM with looks good stuff and they are trying to build it like KDE at that point including multiple apps.
At that point Enlightenment no longer looks good , KDE had caught up all the compositor effects and looking cool , can configure as much as we want. Elightment at that point still crashy as hell and never looked back.
serf 10 hours ago [-]
enlightenment has experimental wayland support.
now THAT must be a narrow cross-section of users.
the screenshots make me want to fire it up, I miss linux UIs when the sun/BeOS influences were still apparent. " First off, we need a nice big clock, then we'll go from there."
zokier 10 hours ago [-]
e has had "experimental" wayland support for over a decade (since 0.20 from 2015).
One-shotted script-fu buttons and those gradients haven't aged well.
n_l 7 hours ago [-]
That was a trip down memory lane I did not expect. Thank you!
I was using the LCARS theme on a tiny Toshiba laptop around 2005. Yes, the UX was incredibly bad, but I loved it, …for about a week :)
jraph 8 hours ago [-]
Most of these were probably not very usable, but this feels a bit like all these winamp skins, passion obviously went into these things and that's freaking cool.
jraph 8 hours ago [-]
I've read they still maintain it!
bottlepalm 13 hours ago [-]
They should use AI to organize the change notes as well.
jraph 8 hours ago [-]
Is your concern that they organize the change notes differently (and what do you suggest?), or that they specifically use ai for doing it?
I'm tired, boss.
bottlepalm 8 hours ago [-]
Currently they’re not organized at all, and yes AI could do it in seconds making that list readable.
functionmouse 12 hours ago [-]
Why don't you do it?
bottlepalm 8 hours ago [-]
Sure, give me write access to the website and I will.
billiob 7 hours ago [-]
Send me an email with that content and I'll update the page
jamesnorden 5 hours ago [-]
Asked Deepseek to order by category, it did ok I guess.
It was lovely to use in the very early days of amd64 as a window manager (along side gtk and kde libs). My absolute favourite was the virtual-desktop handling with multiple physical monitors in that you can switch between virtual desktops in a screen-independent way. Nothing else I've used has hit the same seamless ease.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317534 ("Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements")
Delightful.
But then KDE become stable so switch to it.
Then Last time i tried to give it a chance was 2022 STILL Same broken WM with looks good stuff and they are trying to build it like KDE at that point including multiple apps.
At that point Enlightenment no longer looks good , KDE had caught up all the compositor effects and looking cool , can configure as much as we want. Elightment at that point still crashy as hell and never looked back.
now THAT must be a narrow cross-section of users.
the screenshots make me want to fire it up, I miss linux UIs when the sun/BeOS influences were still apparent. " First off, we need a nice big clock, then we'll go from there."
One-shotted script-fu buttons and those gradients haven't aged well.
I was using the LCARS theme on a tiny Toshiba laptop around 2005. Yes, the UX was incredibly bad, but I loved it, …for about a week :)
I'm tired, boss.
https://pastes.io/clMQpNDi