Opinions on the "enlightenment" window manager

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:29:49 PDT 2004


On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> On 11 Apr 2002, at 17:57, Net Llama! boldly uttered:
> > > thoughts are.  Also if other environments provide a similar
> > > transparency effect.
> >
> > Sure.  Konsole, aterm, wterm, Eterm.  You don't need the window manager
> > for that.
>
> OK so those all sound like terminal apps.

Yup.

>
> Therefore I assume at this point the appeal of "Englightenment" goes
> beyond transparent terminal windows, to various other aspects of the
> UI?  Or are you saying that ie KDE does most of what Enlightenment
> does in the visual respect now?

They're prolly close to being on par in terms of visual features (althoug,
truth be told, i haven't used either in quite some times).  Enlightenment
is (currently) just a window manager, although there are plans to make it
an enenvironment.

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