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[-] rovingnothing29@lemmy.world 93 points 3 weeks ago
[-] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair E always had great potential (I recall reading somewhere some car makers use it in their infotainment UIs), but alas doesn't have the manpower to keep it at the same pace as some other DEs, even much newer than it. If I were Xfce and got the last straw of the GNOME-ization of GTK I'd rewrite all my shit with the E libraries - hell, it would be awesome if those two merged together.

[-] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 weeks ago

I remember running Enlightenment as a DM for my pc long ago and loved it's looks and animated splash screen. Back then I found other DM to be looking like old stuff trying to look like windows. But E was beautiful and smooth. Just not the most developed as a system management ( it was mostly just a DM and no proper system configuration tools ) I don't know where it's at now but I kind of miss the styling.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago

E was black magic. The things it could do with such little hardware were mind blowing. And the ESD became the de facto sound standard before ALSA.

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

Out of interest, after alsa it was pulse and now it's turning to pipewire?
What was the standard before ESD?

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

Before ESD? I don’t recall. Spittle and prayers, I think. I vaguely recall having sound on my Sound Blaster 16 in my 486DX2, but… that was a long time ago.

[-] oporko@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

OSS was the Linux sound system before ALSA. I’m not sure if ESD replaced OSS or ran on top of it. I vaguely remember configuring this stuff for my 486/SoundBlaster in Slackware back in the early 2000s.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

You’re right. I think ESD could run atop OSS and maybe even ALSA for a while. Not sure if it could operate without either. Those sure were interesting times.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

Samsung supposedly uses it for tizen

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

yeah their libraries efl

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 18 points 3 weeks ago
[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 16 points 3 weeks ago

Malloc

That's a good cat name!

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago

true (its actually his real name)

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

It also sounds like "malo" in Spanish which means "bad".

[-] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 3 weeks ago

Every time I read something about Enlightenment I have to think about this post: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened

[-] QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for the link, this rant is amazing 😂

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago

That was enlightening.

[-] dunz@feddit.nu 22 points 3 weeks ago

I used both E16 and E17 a bit, in ye olden days. Really cool stuff. Very different ideas of what a desktop is/can/should be/do

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

🎼is/can/should be/do🎶
—Frank Sinatra

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 weeks ago

Should have had a point like

❌ Everyone pronounces it wrong (gee-nome)

[-] peppers_ghost@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nobody will ever be able to get me to pronounce it that way

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 weeks ago

Plasma:

"Here's literally all the things... You sort it out, if you want. If not...whatever."

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago

I think most of Lemmy acknowled the beauty of Linux

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, but we like to also constantly talk about it ok, I think we established that as well, or do we have to ~~fight about it~~ talk about the beauty of Linux some more??

/s
(well, not sarcasm, more like a joke)

[-] exu@feditown.com 16 points 3 weeks ago

Enlightenment does support Wayland

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago

I don’t think they realize what the X means

There should be a checkmark next to “logo is a foot”

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

I haven't used enlightenment but I've always heard interesting things about it. Does anyone have any experience with it or know why it be like that

[-] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

I used it as my main DE a few years ago, its great! Really cool UI, completely different to all other DE's but it makes sense, and it has some cool stylings like for example virtual desktops icons being the actual desktops, just really tiny. The bugs, however, kept piling up, and it (segmentation fault)ed too often, so I had to abandon it. Last I heard, the reason it doesn't get major dev work anymore is that its really hard to work with.

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Tried it in a vm, I just don't like it's ui but the ux is good.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Twenty years ago, you'd run it every now and then because it was kind of fun. I'm not sure if it counts as actually using it though. There were actual window managers for that.

I'm not sure what the use case is nowadays, I'll have to install it someday.

[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

I used Bodhi Linux for a long time and I still remember how cool was the Enlightment fork they used: Moksha

[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

E supports Wayland

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

obligatory PLASMA RULES GNOME DROOLS

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Real 🗣🗣🗣

[-] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Enlightment doesn't support many distros and i think Gnome looks much better and much more unique

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Enlightment doesn’t support many distros

True (segmentation failure) but they said its all a joke from the source i linked:

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