tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post9053103641251149989..comments2024-03-05T10:47:39.661-06:00Comments on Thoughts on Technology: Five Things the Enlightenment Desktop Does BestAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17954467314386661328noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-43758807141889651752015-09-23T17:37:57.338-05:002015-09-23T17:37:57.338-05:00If you're ok with a source distribution (and h...If you're ok with a source distribution (and having to do a system update about once per week) then you should definitely try out Gentoo Linux. It can do seamless upgrades just fine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-16435536495539004332013-01-04T09:59:17.768-06:002013-01-04T09:59:17.768-06:00Bodhi is among the best linux distros. Plain and s...Bodhi is among the best linux distros. Plain and simple. True that KDE takes too much ram and is annoying. Simplicity rules and is the future btw. I just know it. Many people I know have stopped using ubuntu and are only now into Bodhi or Crunchbang. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-24868713990713494182012-08-08T15:28:49.109-05:002012-08-08T15:28:49.109-05:00My enlightenment desktop on my Bodhi 2.0.1 OS equi...My enlightenment desktop on my Bodhi 2.0.1 OS equipped desktop is anything but ugly and tacky-and I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to computers.<br />Jeff and all those who made it possible-great job on the latest version of Bodhi.Jon Valentinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-52002140057220821642012-07-28T15:55:51.119-05:002012-07-28T15:55:51.119-05:00Best desktop environment out in my opinion. I real...Best desktop environment out in my opinion. I really like the speed and flexibility it offers. It looks great and feels great, does not get in the way and I can make it look and behave exactly as I want. I have QT, GTK2 and GTK3 apps which just blend in with no problems at all. I am running e17 on Arch x64 on Slim and it is a pleasure to use - I don't think I'll find a better DE for productivity. I installed Bodhi on an ancient spare laptop for some older non tech people, setup some great default apps for them and they have not had any problems with the DE at all. Thanks for making this so easy Jeff, big fan.randommemdumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08088613630067027464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-66674421243651565032012-07-26T05:52:26.679-05:002012-07-26T05:52:26.679-05:00Agreed!
What stuns me is Bodhi's smooth menu ...Agreed! <br />What stuns me is Bodhi's smooth menu animations and such running on an ancient 350MHz P3-700 with a mere 128MB of RAM. <br />OK, I can't edit a huge bitmap in GNU IMP without swap activity slowing the response, and more RAM is always good - but it surfs the web just fine.<br />BenBigBenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13892330033415897315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-50892718274741779712012-07-09T05:35:41.194-05:002012-07-09T05:35:41.194-05:00Enlightenment has been brilliant in using eye cand...Enlightenment has been brilliant in using eye candy for things that are productive, instructive, and useful. I find the surge in eyecandy in desktop environments (starting around 2004 maybe with wobbly windows) was too often "candy for candy's sake." Enlightenment makes it pretty, but makes what's pretty *useful.*R Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03309678206939813411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-83436140935605620342012-05-10T13:46:06.196-05:002012-05-10T13:46:06.196-05:00It's his/hers/its, and i'm happy as long a...It's his/hers/its, and i'm happy as long as i can find and start programs and switch between them on the max resolutions of my monitors.Cees Timmermanhttps://www.facebook.com/cees.timmermannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-7634000626301485482012-04-19T02:42:56.163-05:002012-04-19T02:42:56.163-05:00Heres a good one for you.... Installed it on my co...Heres a good one for you.... Installed it on my cousins old Celeron 633mhz computer with 192 megs of ram... It now boots almost as fast as a modern computer with windows, crashes far less often, and easy enough to use for someone that doesnt even know what a linux is. All in all, I have to say great work, although I run e17 with a gentoo box, I do have Bodhi as a live USB. Keep it up :)Daniel Diazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152316523902012914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-85034801229681913892012-01-31T21:31:52.398-06:002012-01-31T21:31:52.398-06:00I used enlightenment 16 for years and began to use...I used enlightenment 16 for years and began to use E17 back in the days when the only way to get it was to build it yourself. My laptop will soon have its 8th birthday, has maxed out the RAM it is physically possible to insert (1 Meg) and has a plain Jane video card. Nonetheless, it blazes with Bodhi, looks beautiful and does things that would otherwise require a high end video card. I marvel at the number of people who purchase a new laptop after 2 or 3 years because their old one "is running slow". I cannot think of a better distro to recommend to others, regardless of how light or heavy their hardware resources are. Many thanks for Rasterman, the E17 developers and to Jeff and the Bodhi team!Scott Smithhttp://www.phws.info/linuxlowdownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-67916201807985805312012-01-10T05:03:55.001-06:002012-01-10T05:03:55.001-06:00@Jeff:
Have you considered basing Bodhi on Arch L...@Jeff:<br /> Have you considered basing Bodhi on Arch Linux?<br /><br /> Arch is an up-to-date no-bloat rolling-release meta-distribution precompiled and optimized both for i686 AND x86-64. It is mainly geared towards power-users, because its extreme degree of choice is usually overwhelming to beginners (though great documentation and forum support certainly helps).<br /><br /> I believe this makes it a good core to base a distribution off. Bodhi could then be distributed as a metapackage with a list of pre-selected packages and setup-files, maybe also an extra pacman-repository, some installation /setup program and maybe a great packman-based sysadmin GUI-tool.<br /><br /> A live-CD is of course still a must, and this does not need to be updated very often since, given broadband, updating can be done during installation.<br />(As inspiration for a simple mechanism to build on:<br />https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_from_Existing_Linux#A_Third_.28And_Simpler.29_Method )<br /><br /> For those without broadband; a DVD with a copy of some relatively updated repositories should be simple to make and distribute, and would not need any kind of special treatment or reinstallation.<br /><br /> I believe this would have the following main consequences:<br /><br />1: Bodhi would become a rolling release distro; Always very up-to-date.<br />2: Users could select between 32bit or 64bit at installation, default being whatever the cpu supports (native).<br />3: Bodhi would become even faster and leaner on system resources.<br />4: After the transition, the Bodhi developers would have less work to do, since I bet maintaining some configuration-scripts, a pacman-repository and a metapackage requires far less work / frustration than modifying and stripping each new release of ubuntu.<br />5: The major drawback, as far as I can see:<br /> lack of support for CPU's older than i686. This might be remedied by providing repositories where everything has been recompiled for i586 or even i486, but I don't know how much work that would entail.<br /><br />Final note: I have not yet tried Bodhi, but I think I am about to. Have some old laptops I want to revive. :-)<br />Jan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-85268090399291786112012-01-03T12:16:10.648-06:002012-01-03T12:16:10.648-06:00I really like the Bodhi Linux, but there is a prob...I really like the Bodhi Linux, but there is a problem ... I am using in the three keyboard layouts and can not adjust the built-in easy keyboard shortcut to switch between them. Correct the situation please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-15926108118307194972011-11-16T22:43:07.548-06:002011-11-16T22:43:07.548-06:00I really like what I'm seeing so far with Bodh...I really like what I'm seeing so far with Bodhi Linux. Not too sure I like Midori for the browser though...I prefer Chrome or Chromium. Enlightenment looks great though, and I LOVE how you can choose from different themes when you first boot it up. I'm also definitely looking forward to the rolling releases and the 64-bit version 2.0. Keep up the good work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-66416825626304508392011-11-15T09:46:02.166-06:002011-11-15T09:46:02.166-06:00I used to run E a long time ago, when it was more ...I used to run E a long time ago, when it was more of a preview of what could be. I'm planning on D/L Bodhi soon to try the new version on my laptop. My present setup is strongly based on Compiz and the use of a completely transparent Desktop Cube and Skydome. I'm not sure whether E will be sufficiently down the compositing path, but I'm curious to find out. I would love to see the workspaces of E to be moved into 3D space, and allow any surface in a 3D space to be a workspace - IMHO it's time we moved past the flat 'desktop' metaphor, and take the 'workspace' metaphor into the next phase. Once this step is taken, an entire new generation of 3D-space oriented tools will start flooding the market, developed by smart and creative users. And, just for the record, yes I'm a geek, have been using Linux for much more than a decade. I've been promoting 3D workspaces for more than twice that. Why can't I move around my 'room', that contains full contextual information about everything I work on at different times, and work at different 'stations'? At this point there's no technical reason not to.garybhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03961255346436998473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-4866849611690873802011-10-15T08:46:12.386-05:002011-10-15T08:46:12.386-05:00Have been a Linux user since 1995. I think that I ...Have been a Linux user since 1995. I think that I have experimented with fifteen different distros since then, starting with SuSE - it was packaged for retail locally. Wow! have things changed. Downloaded Bodhi when she was lacking an integer. Worked, but was buggy. Still very interesting as it came with Enlightenment, something I had played with previously - even sent the Greeks some cash.<br />The current release is awesome - but I need to know how to package programs, I suspect. And I am anxious to see if QT will play well in this sandbox, how will emacs work, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-79880916303611172702011-10-10T10:10:26.459-05:002011-10-10T10:10:26.459-05:00To Jesse B.: Debian Squeeze (the current Debian s...To Jesse B.: Debian Squeeze (the current Debian stable release) was actually released back in February of this year. The reason I know this is because I'm currently running CrunchBang Statler Xfce edition, which is based on Squeeze and only came out like a day or two after Squeeze was released, and I love it! :-)<br /><br />Oh, and Jeff, I remember your list of your personal top 20 favorite GTK themes from earlier this year or possibly sometime last year. Thanx for including my "Country Oak" theme in that list. :-)Fred McKinneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-45854371314769467752011-09-18T04:50:06.318-05:002011-09-18T04:50:06.318-05:00I'm presently running E16 and have found this ...I'm presently running E16 and have found this to be a good choice for me. With all the different flavors of Linux that are available combined with the different environments and window managers it takes time to discover what works. This has been an ongoing project for me that has included testing the various distributions.<br /><br />I have also discovered that people in general are an impatient lot. They want what works, but without the fuss of learning to use what they have and how to make it a competent tool for everyday computer use.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09948302004899464670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-3859324157380523152011-09-18T01:58:52.593-05:002011-09-18T01:58:52.593-05:00Make Bodhi a rolling release and watch your stats ...Make Bodhi a rolling release and watch your stats skyrocket. While we do have Arch and LMDE these might (understatement) be too much for our newest users. Like everyone else out there I grow weary of the fresh install process - even though I could (and have) made my /home on a separate partition, there are always things that don't 'play nicely'. Fix that, make a rolling release like OpenSUSE 'Tumbleweed' and many a convert (me too!) you will have!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-14389905596283232872011-09-09T07:27:07.889-05:002011-09-09T07:27:07.889-05:00"I wish there were seamless upgrades in linux..."I wish there were seamless upgrades in linux"<br />Doh! Of course there are seamless upgrades - it's called Debian and Ubuntu is NOT Linux (Linux is a kernel)<br /><br />"I'm sure if Unity or Gnome 3 had this feature it would have saved many users lots of grief in the last few months. "<br />Well Gnome 3 does have this feature which you might have known had you actually used it. And please don't forget the years and years it's taken to make E17 usable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-44687179321155948252011-09-08T13:49:09.200-05:002011-09-08T13:49:09.200-05:00Joe -
There is not currently any way to have GTK...Joe - <br /><br />There is not currently any way to have GTK theme auto match E17 theme. You need to use some tool such as LXappearance to change GTK themes after changing E themes.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954467314386661328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-81487755330014798112011-09-08T13:30:54.583-05:002011-09-08T13:30:54.583-05:00you make alot of good points. in eg. XFCE has some...you make alot of good points. in eg. XFCE has some of the things enlightenment does eg session restore/saving and speed (and few features). and obviously compared to the other DE's enlightenment clearly is in it's own class. However I have trouble with (and currecntly stops me from going full blown into enlightenment is) the but ugly GTK themes. I can choose a theme in enlightenment and the GTK theme stays the same ugly look. is there a way to make the themes automatically match when I switch the theme on enlightenment?joedoe47https://www.blogger.com/profile/09755363962519694501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-68466678572598269192011-09-08T12:32:36.642-05:002011-09-08T12:32:36.642-05:00I remember when Bodhi came on board. At that time,...I remember when Bodhi came on board. At that time, I wrote to Jeff direct. Bodhi is getting better and better--just like from where it got its name--Enlightenment, which is Bodhi (not the E17)<br /><br />I can't remember how Win2000 looked like, really, so I think that guy was just whining.<br /><br />In a i3 machine it just flies! <br /><br />I wish Jeff a very bright future!Chhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06322002519607724376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-14179454218379690022011-09-03T00:53:13.209-05:002011-09-03T00:53:13.209-05:00I am glad that E17 is being done again. I for one...I am glad that E17 is being done again. I for one do not like Bodhi Linux but glad they are pushing out E17 and showing it to people who would not know it existed. E17 does not thrill me but glad they are rewriting things and maybe one day I will use it all the time. I just use it for a little while and go try some thing else.United againsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06076711128580222619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-12025652363378854772011-08-31T11:43:31.368-05:002011-08-31T11:43:31.368-05:00Seamless upgrades?
Debian has been there for well...Seamless upgrades? <br />Debian has been there for well over a decade. <br /><br />Even the glibc upgrade was relatively smooth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-84037570827091450942011-08-31T11:36:22.429-05:002011-08-31T11:36:22.429-05:00E17 120MB
Openbox 129MB
Unity 186MB
Gnome 3 193MB
...E17 120MB<br />Openbox 129MB<br />Unity 186MB<br />Gnome 3 193MB<br />KDE 213MBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1402984000559601283.post-57495466879073759422011-08-31T09:30:27.089-05:002011-08-31T09:30:27.089-05:00"Enlightenment E17 - 230 MB
XFCE - 375 MB
Gno..."Enlightenment E17 - 230 MB<br />XFCE - 375 MB<br />Gnome 3 - 450 MB<br />Unity 2D - 530 MB<br />Unity - 545 MB<br />KDE 4.7 - 720 MB"<br /><br />I knew Ubuntu is getting more bloated but not THAT bloated! GNOME 3 and startup apps on my Fedora 15 take only 220 MBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com