Search for a good desktop(NOT desktop environment)

[Didier Casse]

    * From: John Lagrue <admin moraystudio com>
    * To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>
    * Subject: Re: Search for a good desktop(NOT desktop environment)
    * Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 18:49:16 +0100

>Didier Casse wrote:

>    Enlightenment!

 >   www.enlightenment.org

>E beats them all in terms of speed, power, design, slickness. Download E
>and feel the power of a robust desktop. :-p


>>This interested me, but after looking at it for a few hours I can't get
>>the damn thing to install on Fedora. It needs libraries (libjpeg,
>>GTK) that already exist on my system but configure still tells me they
>>don't exist.

>>Has anyone got this running on FC1 ?



Yeps indeed I got it installed on FC1.  Sorry I saw your posting late! 

You can download all the rpms at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/enlightenment/

You can install the rh9 rpm safely. You might need fnlib, which is also
there. 

Btw don't compile from src, you'll get a headache! If you need libjpeg, I
guess you can do an "apt-get install libjpeg". Just try them out. You can
email me if you have further problems describing your problem accurately. 


Btw I would also encourage you to join the users mailing list for further
support. 

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users


It's really worth it to install E. I used KDE, GNOME, XFCE, WindowMaker
and many other window managers and was frustrated with most of them. The
most frustrating ones were KDE and GNOME. They are so slow and freeze my
system just like Windows!

In the end I still came back to E which served me well. Try the themes and
you'll see how slick and eye-candy E can be, besides being very stable. No
other window manager can reproduce its spceial effects.
 



With kind regards,

Didier.

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