OT Enlightenment 16 => 17 opinions ??

[Frode Petersen]

William Case wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 18:59 -0400, William Case wrote:
>> Hi;
>>
>> I have opened a new user account to try out Enlightenment desktop.  I
>> have been playing with E16 all afternoon and kind of like it.  Before I
>> really dive in though, I was wondering if it is worth downloading E17.
> 
> It turns out enlightenment-0.16.999.050-3.fc11.x86_64 is the one I
> installed from the Fedora repo.  The version numbers are so close I
> wonder if this means it is virtually the same as version 17.

There is also a repo with a more updated(?) e17.

http://optics.csufresno.edu/~kriehn/fedora/repository.html

Some months ago (F8,F9,F10?), that was the only way to get a complete 
e17, but I believe many parts are now included in the normal Fedora 
repos, although version numbers might vary.

 >> Has anybody tried e17?  What did you think of it?

I used e16 many years ago, but have only poked a little at the surface 
of E17. Guess I should check up on it again. As far as eye candy goes, I 
think there is more 'competition' now than there used to be in the e16 
days, so it would take more to impress. The real advantage of e is 
supposed to be looks without a big hit in speed and resource usage. I 
haven't tried it enough to judge on any of those yet, but it would be 
interesting to see if it has retained some of it's old magic.

I read an article a while back, where they found big differences in e17 
performance depending on whether it was run on top of a normal distro or 
streamlined as in e-live or something in between. I don't know how it is 
set up on Fedora in that respect.

Frode Petersen