Opinions on the "enlightenment" window manager

[Philip J. Koenig]

On 12 Apr 2002, at 12:12, Net Llama! boldly uttered: 
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Philip J. Koenig wrote:

> > 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.


Yep, although this "v17" apparently is going to break all
the stuff made for v16.  I think if KDE is even somewhat
down the road to what they're doing I see no point in 
needlessly complicating my life with a non-mainstream
window environment which is about to obsolete itself 
anyway. :-)

Thanks for the input, much appreciated.

Phil



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