On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:15:26 +1030 Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de> wrote:
Enlightenment can have some bling, not crazy wobbly windows or anything but it can do most other things, we might disable it in the default openSUSE builds though. Enlightenment is probably also the only other one in that list that can have mostly working wayland support (In openSUSE this still needs some testing which i'll get to at some point). You can also choose to not have bling if you want.
I did try it some decade or decade-and-a-half ago, and whereas there were some _very_ fancy themes, there wasn't any very fancy functionality. Personally I like my desktops to look very very plain. (NeXTstep was IMHO the most beautiful desktop ever written, and it was almost entirely black, white and a few shades of grey.) So for me, there wasn't a lot of appeal in Enlightenment. I gave it another look when Bodhi Linux came out. Not much had changed -- none of the exciting _new_ bling that compositing had brought to GNOME 2 and KDE -- but it all looked rather more Win9x-ish. Nothing to see here, move along. So I haven't been back. Then I read this: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened (Warning: sweary.) It's become quite famous and attracted many angry responses, including from Rasterman himself -- but as it was at the time, it appears to be almost entirely true and accurate. There were some very hasty edits to the code and the docs to conceal some of the things the article criticises, but there's history to show that. Later, even Bodhi itself got annoyed with the development cycle and forked E17 to create its own desktop. So, yes, long may it continue and so on -- I gather Tizen uses it, for instance -- but I don't foresee it escaping its niche in the foreseeable future. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084