[SlugBug] E-17

[Richard Smedley]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 00:14 +0100, Andy Halsall wrote:
> Anyway, if anyone is looking for a slightly different desktop, that is 
> both very lightweight and very good looking and well designed, then take 
> a look. Id love to hear what people think (not that I am associated with 
> the project, but the comments I have had from non-geeks who have looked 
> at my laptop have been interesting, it'd like to compare)

It does seem to appeal to non-geeks :)
In the late 90s I worked in a ``new media'' environment. Everyone
else had MacOS on their desktop, but they all stopped by to ask
questions about my Enlightenment 16 Desktop. None of them made
a move to GNU/Linux at the time, but quite a few tried BeOS after I
demonstrated it there on an old Pentium PC.

Now I run E17 as the secondary desktop on my laptop (PWM remains
my first choice, after many years of failing to find anything
better ;)
The flexible arrangement of desktops you mention is good - I have
nine in a square, meaning I never have far to move to get to
a particular workspace. The effects (all done with 2D libraries)
impress almost everyone. So much so that I no longer feel the
need to start GNOME, and show off spinning 3D cubes on 16MB
of in-built Intel graphics =o)

> Oh and additionally I have been running familiar on my Ipaq for a while 
> now and was wondering if anyone else is using familiar or OE on a PDA.

I'm waiting for my OpenMoko ;-)


Regards,

 - Richard

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