Enlightenment

[dac9]

Craig,

did you take a look at this?

It is made for mobile chips in devices such as the Pandora now and is lighter than XFCE...

further info enlightenment.org

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Reap3r

 

[kingoddball]

E17 (which is the same?) is also on PS3.
You can most likely just install it yourself whenever you want.
I'm sure OPT won't be changing from XFCE anytime soon.

 

[dac9]

Well its probably best to go with e16 for now.

Ill give it a go when I get mine i'm around 3800 so months off yet...

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Reap3r

 

[SomeGuy99]

They were actually using enlightenment for a while before they switched to XFCE. Check out some of the older vids.

 

[dac9]

They were actually using enlightenment for a while before they switched to XFCE. Check out some of the older vids.

Thanks for the inf. I did not know that. I'll take a look...

Any idea why they moved away from e16?

 

[JayFoxRox]

Don't know the reasons anymore, but angstrom is even with enlightenment by default. However, I used enlightenment on my beagleboard a few times and it was slow (not optimized enough?). I tried xfce on the pandora at cebit and it was WAY faster.
Besides that enlightenment is hard to use imo, well, a good bit harder than xfce.

 

[mindlord]

They were actually using enlightenment for a while before they switched to XFCE. Check out some of the older vids.

Thanks for the inf. I did not know that. I'll take a look...

Any idea why they moved away from e16?

It was unstable, and xfce uses a smidge less resources.

 

[SomeGuy99]

They were actually using enlightenment for a while before they switched to XFCE. Check out some of the older vids.

Thanks for the inf. I did not know that. I'll take a look...

Any idea why they moved away from e16?

It was unstable, and xfce uses a smidge less resources.

I remember them saying something about XFCE supporting Network Manager too.

 

[dac9]

Thanks for all the info guys.

Also, e16 is super stable... e17 is not.

Were they using e16 & still having problems... I could not find the videos of pandora's using it.

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[gruso]

They were using E17. I don't remember any E17 videos, but we're going back a year now.

 

[dac9]

They were using E17. I don't remember any E17 videos, but we're going back a year now.

Thanks Gruso,

I will give 16 a go when I get my Pandora... I am 3800 - 3900 so end of the year for me

 

[Elanzer]

E17 was probably ditched because XFCE is alot more familiar for Windows users

 

[dac9]

E17 was probably ditched because XFCE is alot more familiar for Windows users

Thats never good.

There is a reason Sony, Nintendo & Others make their UX. And there is a reason it never looks like windows on portable devices.

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Reap3r

 

[WizardStan]

E17 was probably ditched because XFCE is alot more familiar for Windows users

I'm almost absolutely positive that that isn't true.

 

[SomeGuy99]

E17 was probably ditched because XFCE is alot more familiar for Windows users

Thats never good.

There is a reason Sony, Nintendo & Others make their UX. And there is a reason it never looks like windows on portable devices.

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Reap3r

We have Minimenu for a more console type UI. I think that and the full desktop environment of XCFE make a nice pair.

 

[dac9]

E17 was probably ditched because XFCE is alot more familiar for Windows users

Thats never good.

There is a reason Sony, Nintendo & Others make their UX. And there is a reason it never looks like windows on portable devices.

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Regards,
Reap3r

We have Minimenu for a more console type UI. I think that and the full desktop environment of XCFE make a nice pair.

Cant wait to try it all out.