Comments on: E17 — Desktop Enlightenment

By: Nez

Nez — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:18:25 +0000

Been using e17 for about a month,having tried e16,Fluxbox,Blackbox,and a host of distro’s for a few years.This is interesting.True it is alpha,and in a Windows environment,you would be talking “in-house” tweaking,and not (general) public release.Yet this is available for everybody to try.Eye-candy,themes,and you can download your own,plus other desktop icons,wallpaper,etc.It might not be to everybody’s taste,but I shall keep it.

By: Badiane

Badiane — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:50:00 +0000

Nice article. I have it installed and wanted to know how to enable emacs mode for all the applications.

By: duvelr

duvelr — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:08:57 +0000

So the different binary formats E17 uses are:

* EAP (file extention is .eap) - used for icons for the menu and IBar
* EDJ (file extension is .edj) - used for backgrounds and themes

http://www3.get-e.org/E17_User_Guide/English/_pages/3.7.html

By: john doe

john doe — Thu, 24 May 2007 07:23:24 +0000

I’ll be very interested in the authors definition of “minimal hardware requirements” here personally I think he should stay off the pipe. DR16 as someone suggested should be more appropriate for OLD hardware. Then there is the theming problem all themes look the same, well actually they don’t but they all have the same squary feeling.. yes I know it’s because E17 is under heavily development that breaks themes and there isn’t really any documentation for it etc etc.. but that not changes the fact it REALLY lacks good themes.. E17 sure is a good wm, personally I’d wish it had been more of a improved version of E16 than some sort of a xfce variant but then again it’s not gonna happen… wonder if people will make fun of it’s desktop icon support in the mid 2007.. but again it can’t beat the fact it’s a good wm.

By: ed-j

ed-j — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:33:58 +0000

Ooooops! Didn’t think my first email worked! The joys of Novicehood!!!LOL

By: ed-j

ed-j — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:31:00 +0000

Hi People!

I am a Novice and I installed e17 a couple of days ago with instructions put on the ModFree Forum by RichBarna.

http://www.modfree.org
http://www.modfree.org/index.php?topic=297.msg3207#msg3207

I have installed e17 onto Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) along with KDE. The only problem so far is that when I log out between desktop managers, it affects my CRT refresh-rate, which I have to reset with what limited ability that I have.

No problem, I am only learning/having a go.

Funny to read……….written to binary files with “edj”!!!

My username….ed-j (edj or ed_j in some places).

My email: ed-j [at] dsl [dot] pipex [dot] com

I don’t think I will understand, but what is an “edj extension?”

Anyway, so far e17 is very fast, and yes, not quite like anything I have seen so far.

Great stuff! Many thanks for the software!!! All the best!

By: ed-j

ed-j — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:44:09 +0000

Wow! I finally found somewhere to leave a message?

I’m new to Linux and I just loaded E17 yesterday. That’s the most different thing I’ve seen since I first loaded KDE a few weeks ago. I’m now running Feisty with KDE and E17.

I look forward to following the development. Many thanks for E17!!!

By: BatSardo

BatSardo — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:10:17 +0000

ehm sorry…don’t know why I posted in italian ahaahaah

so…this is a GREAT WM