The H Open: In this edition: catching up with the releases that happened over the long Easter weekend, including Mageia 3 beta 4, Scientific Linux 6.4 and Bodhi Linux 2.3.0.
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tecmint: Bodhi Linux 2.3.0 is a minimalistic Linux operating system based on Ubuntu that uses by default Enlightenment Desktop (E17).
Bodhi Linux 2.2.0 review
By finid From LinuxBSDos.com.
Bodhi Linux is a desktop distribution based on Ubuntu. It uses the Enlightenment desktop environment as the primary and only (officially) supported desktop environment. Not too…
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Enlightenment’s E17: Ready for prime time?
By finid
After more than a decade of slow, but steady coding, Enlightenment version 0.17 or E17, was released late last year. Enlightenment is a window manager-cum-desktop environment for Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems.
It is one of those projects that caught my attention years ago, but which I decided, after playing with it for sometime, that it was not yet ready for prime time. I’ve been quietly tracking its development since.
The last time I took it for a spin was early last year. I was not too impressed then, and dropped it. But now that the “stable” version has been released, I decided to give it another try. I did that using an installation of the latest edition of Bodhi Linux, a desktop distribution based on Ubuntu.
I like most of what I saw and I think it is ready for your desktop. But there are still some very rough edges. The basic thing you need to know about E17 is that it is resource-friendly, and will run on very old computers. But if it will run on old computers, imagine how it will fare on that “supercomputer” sitting on your desktop or on your lap. Also E17′s window-compositing is hardware-independent. You can read the previous article published about E17 heer.
What about those “very rough edges” referred to earlier? There’s not a whole lot, but here are the ones I noticed in the few weeks I’ve been testing Bodhi Linux, and which I think you should know about before you take any E17 desktop for a spin.
1. Where’s the rest of the menu?: This does not need any explanation. Just look at the next two screen shots.
But it is also not a big deal. When you want to access the menu from the desktop, just avoid clicking too close to the right edge of the desktop.
2. The File Manager: You’ll want to take note of this one. Every desktop environment needs a good file manager. Right now, E17 does not have a good, native one. That’s the bad news. But it’s not that bad, because there are alternatives in the repository of the distribution you are using. For example, in Bodhi Linux, there is Dolphin, KDE’s file manager, Nautilus, Athena, etc. I hope the developers put more effort addressing this one.
3. Tooltips: One thing that was immediately obvious as I played with an installation of Bodhi Linux, is inconsistency in the behavior of tooltips. Take the screen shot below, for example. With the mouse over an icon on the panel, you can see that the tooltip is atop the icon, rather than outside of it.
But when a cursor is on a window’s icon on the taskbar, there is no tooltip. Perhaps the appearance of tooltips is configurable. If it is, I’m yet to find out how to configure it.
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The many Profiles of Enlightenment’s E17
By finid
There are many desktop environments in active development, but none is as customizable as the E or Enlightenment Desktop Environment. But of all those desktop environments, its development (or public releases) has been comparatively slow.
Enlightenment is one of those projects that caught my attention years ago, but which I decided, after playing with it for sometime, that it was not yet ready for prime time. I’ve been quietly tracking its development since.
The latest release, Enlightenment version 0.17 or E17, was released late last year. I’ve been playing with it for a few weeks now, and so far, I’ve been impressed. There are still has some very rough edges, but it’s very usable.
A feature I like plenty is Profiles, which, in E-speak, is a tool that allows you to customize the loading and positioning of desktop components – themes, modules, fonts, gadgets, icon sets, and more …
E17 Profiles are like KDE Plasma interfaces. However, where KDE has three Plasma interfaces – Desktop, Netbook and the touch, E17 ships with 7 Profiles. If you have not used a distribution that uses this beautiful and resource-friendly desktop environment, these screen shots show the available profiles.
Note: These screen shots were taken from a test installation of the latest edition of Bodhi Linux, a desktop distribution that uses E17. They may not necessarily be the same or as well-implemented as on Bodhi.
Bare Profile: True to its name, this profile has very few modules, gadgets and other desktop components loaded. A profile to use as a base to build a custom E17 desktop.
Compositing Profile: Makes use of the built-in compositing window manager to build a desktop interface with very flashy effects and eye-candy. Compared to desktop effects on KDE, GNOME 3 and even Cinnamon, the speed and smoothness with which E17′s effects are rendered could give you whiplash, so be very careful with this profile and the Fancy profile.
Desktop Profile: This profile offers a standard desktop interface.
Fancy Profile : This is one profile with a load arrangement of desktop components and flashy effects. Not my type of profile, but I’m sure it has its fans.
Netbook Profile : Designed for netbooks and other devices with small interfaces. This is like KDE’s Plasma Netbook interface.
Tablet Profile: As the name indicates, this one is designed for touch-interface devices, just like KDE’s touch desktop. Aside from the Desktop profile, this is my favorite. This screen shot is the landing interface.
Here’s the Application interface.
Tiling Profile: This is just like a standard desktop profile, but with tiling window behavior.
If you have no idea what tiling does, this screen shot shows what happens as applications are opened. Rather than being stacked one atop the other, application windows and dialog windows are arranged like tiles on the desktop. Not my type, but there are situations where tiling can be handy.
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