Enlightenment
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| Last Update: | 2008-01-12 17:01:18 |
| Version: | 0.16.8.11 |
| License/Program Type: | GPL (GNU General Public License) |
| Publisher: | Enlightenment.org |
| Price: | $0.00 |
Description:
The version 0.16 of the Enlightenment window manager was
released in 2000, along with its dependencies Imlib and Fnlib, and
remains in heavy usage today.
While rumors of its death still circulate, DR16.6 was release
on Nov 2nd, 2003, and it remains in development today with a long
life still ahead of it. DR16 has been the choice of power users and
artists due to its low overhead, highly graphical, widely
theme-able, extremely configurable, yet unobtrusive interface.
Nearly all functions of the window manager can be handled
without mouse input, including application launching via
e16keyedit. It also remains highly portable, with ports avalible
for Linux on all platforms, FreeBSD, IRIX, Solaris X86 and Sparc,
HP-UX, AIX, OS/2, and more.
Imlib has lived a long life, still in heavy usage today, as one
of the most popular image manipulation and rendering libs
available. Its development was taken over by the GNOME project and
used as GNOMEs rendering engine until it was replaced with
GdkPixbuf in GNOME 2.0. It's popularity surpasses just development
in C thanks to bindings for several scripting languages including
PERL, Python, and Ruby.
The Enlightenment DR16 Window Manager is a robust, flexable,
highly configurable, graphically rich yet unobtrusive desktop
enviroment for the X11 windowing system. It is fully themable and
easily configured. There are a wide range of configuration options
to suite any taste. DR16 provides an innovate way of managing
applications found no where else, allowing for not only virtual
desktops, but also multiple desktops (a seperate set of virtual
desktops).
A unique snapshoting pager allows for easy management of
application placement and even will zoom on on mouse-over of a
window in the pager for easily locating applications. Support
exists for up to 32 multiple desktops, and virtual desktops up to
8x8 in size! (Thats 2048 possible desktops!) Standard options such
as focus settings and autoraise are extremely configurable to fit
your individual tastes.
Several diffrent types of move and resize effects exist,
including Opaque, Technical, Box, Shaded, Semi-solid, and
Translucent, depending on your preference and CPU requirements.
"Remember" settings can be assigned to each window allowing it to
be placed and configured just as you want on each startup of the
window manager without having to edit any files.
Windows can be individually configured to meet any desire, to
change stacking payers, border styles, window size, grouping, tab
skip, stickiness, and more. And EESH, the Enlightenment Shell,
allows for complete remote control of the window manager and easy
scripting.
The menu system is flexable, providing easy access to
applications, theme selection, documentation, settings, and
background selection. DR16 uniquely allows background selection to
be done from the main menu system using thumbnailed views of the
background providing a quick and easy way to change wallpaper. In
addition, desktop "FX" exist that can add a unique flare,
including a ripple effect at the base of your desktop.
A simple group of flat text files allow for easy editing of
user appliation menus, including the ability to create hierarchical
user menus to suite your various needs. At first startup DR16 will
even scan for your KDE and GNOME menus to add an application menu
for them.
Standard mouseless features such as tab switching exist, but
we've built on even more than that. Virtual desktops can be
navigated using the keyboard arrow keys and nearly anything
including application launching can be keybound via e16bindings
making DR16 an excellent choice for users who want a graphically
rich enviroment that doesn't require constant intervention of the
mouse.
A built in help system called "eDox" provides an excellent
resource for learning the wide variety of diffrent methods of
interaction and configuration. Graphical Tool Tips can also be
enabled to assist normal usage.
Enlightenment DR16 integrates well with both GNOME and KDE.
Replace the default window mangers for each with Enlightenment and
you'll have the power to leverage the best of GNOME and KDE at the
same time, while enjoying the superior windowing interface that
Enlightenment provides.
EESH, the Enlightenment Shell, allows for complete remote
control of the window manager and easy scripting.
Enlightenment DR16 is highly portable, with binaries avalible
for or testing done on all Linux platforms, Solaris X86 and Sparc,
HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS/2 and more.
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