Larry Finger wrote:
work on E17 is still in progress but I believe that E17 is very well usable for everyday use already. Please, tell me your opinion here.
I use LXDE on a couple of underpowered laptops. I tried E17 about 3 months ago, and I was underwhelmed! Has it improved that much recently? At the moment, if support for LXDE were to be dropped, I would likely choose another light-weight desktop, but not E17.
I'd almost, 2nd the above in so much that the LXDE is the one that is most likely to come up with low resource usage.. and w/o alot of bells and whistles -- it's a bit above a raw Xterm and has good configurability and flexibility -- simple but it had a polish to it. As a desktop it comes up notably faster than Gnome or KDE which are slow to start. This is more noticeable over a remote connection (even if the connection is on a local LAN). The only thing that is close has been XFCE.... I'll most often use their terminal emulators to login for work. Starting up a gnome or kde term takes forever when it's the only thing you are starting. E17 -- I would like to see it more polished. Work on it seems to be going very slow and it doesn't seem as polished and 'done' as LXDE. Not exactly the answer you were looking for -- but am wondering -- what type of compression does the DVD use? Has it switched to xz or would it be too slow? Are there binaries for install on E17 to try in factory? or where? Trying out the current work might stimulate more people to care one way or the other. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org