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[217.169.3.230]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 16sm8415000wmx.45.2019.08.16.08.28.00 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 16 Aug 2019 08:28:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment experience Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:27:44 +0100 Message-ID: <8202949.hHYbJ55hsS@localhost> In-Reply-To: <5fb774e3-f7eb-a10c-6556-6cf82f8361d8@st.com> References: <5fb774e3-f7eb-a10c-6556-6cf82f8361d8@st.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1920889.PFtZNKiUmz"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 96441d22-606b-40e7-a1ea-8a3c0c576741 X-Archives-Hash: fb121898e39b2ce0b59215b133e9fc4f --nextPart1920889.PFtZNKiUmz Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Friday, 16 August 2019 12:58:33 BST Raffaele Belardi wrote: > I'm considering switching from Gnome to Enlightenment. Looks very nice but > has very few native applications, I was wondering why since it's been > around since '97. Then I found this [1] and, as a sw programmer, got a > little bit scared... LOL! I take it the author is not in favour of the efl coding then! My knowledge of coding is non-existent, but as a plain user I have been using enlightenment since the e17 days and can confirm it does not have many native applications. Last time I looked I found around a dozen apps in various stages of development, plus its file manager & desktop gadgets. > Are there any Gentoo enlightenment users who could share their experience > with this DE? Some native (EFL) applications are available only via the > enlightenment-live overlay, how stable is this? It is not a heavy-weight full-fat desktop environment, like Gnome, or KDE. It is light, fast and flexible. I selected it among others because it was very light weight, fast and compared to say fluxbox rather beautiful. I also selected it because it allowed me to choose what applications I wanted to install and use, rather than come preloaded with a tonne of fully integrated applications I do not need/want. Also, if you use more than one monitor you'll probably find very useful the way it allows you to use each monitor independently, with different virtual desktops. I've used e with a small selection of KDE applications, but obviously not the full Plasma DE. For most of the time it worked fine. No crashes, no lost data, no drama. It just did what I needed from a desktop, efficiently, without eating up resources, without buggy indexers, getting out of the way and letting me get on with work. I had to improvise to get some Qt environment variables loading at start up, so that KDE apps look good with oxygen icons, but other than that I do not recall having any problems with it until a year or so ago - see below. Most e devs use Gnome apps and nvidia/intel graphics. They do not seem to use KDE or radeon graphics to know intimately their particular quirks and this is the reason I no longer use it as a primary DE. When the monitor goes to sleep on two different laptops of mine, both with radeon graphics, the CPU starts racing up and down for a few seconds at a time, non-stop, until I move the mouse to wake up the monitor again. A problem related to radeon drivers and mesa I believe. I found this annoying/wasteful and without time to troubleshoot and debug it further I moved on to using Plasma as my day to day DE, while keeping e as a back up. I have used the enlightenment-live overlay and *-9999 packages for 2-3 years non-stop. It was more stable than any other *-9999 package I have ever used with Gentoo, although there might have been a couple of days every few months, of some package failing to emerge. I moved on to using the ebuilds in portage once e17 was included in the stable tree and have had no problem installing ebuilds since. In my experience over the years, bugs reported in the e bug tracker with debugging information are welcomed by the devs, looked into and usually resolved promptly. I still use e as the main DE on older hardware with intel graphics and it works fine there. > I need a session manager to temporarily switch user without logging out, > suggestions? I'd go with openRC, non-wayland if possible. I never got > accustomed to systemd. As far as I know enlightenment does not offer the functionality of switching login sessions between users. I have used it with lightdm and sddm DMs and both work fine with it. There is also entrance, a DM written for e17 I believe, but this was always buggy and had only cursory development over the years. > thanks, > > raffaele > > [1] https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened If you need particular help with developing apps or debugging you can post on the devs' mailing list and also chat with them on IRC. I have found them to be a helpful lot. -- Regards, Mick --nextPart1920889.PFtZNKiUmz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. 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