Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release

peri-cl

Some more discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317534 ( "Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements" )

Arubis

> Restored the Pants module with skirts, kilts, lederhosen, malloc variants, and translations. Delightful.

v3ss0n

I can't believe this crash ridden peice of WM Still exist.. It was horror just to setup something.

bottlepalm

They should use AI to organize the change notes as well.

arjie

Like almost everyone here I only recall this DE/WM with nostalgia. It’s interesting to see how minimal it is now. It felt like the height of maximalism back then. And on very weak hardware had compositing.

perarneng

I remember when this came out. It was so cool to see all effects and nice graphics. I did not even know it still existed. Either way great work and nice to see it back.

tapoxi

It's been in development for 26 years and still isn't 1.0, I wonder what the criteria for that is.

pantulis

It’s great to see the Rasterman himself still doing releases after all these years! Legend!

serf

enlightenment has experimental wayland support. now THAT must be a narrow cross-section of users. the screenshots make me want to fire it up, I miss linux UIs when the sun/BeOS influences were still apparent. " First off, we need a nice big clock, then we'll go from there."

bluepoint

How does it fare with stability? The golden age version (e16?) was fun but would crash regularly.

BuildTheRobots

Remembering e17 makes me extremely nostalgic - in fact, if anyone has a screenshot of the clock circuit-board background with the working 7-segment clock on it, I'd be eternally grateful. It was lovely to use in the very early days of amd64 as a window manager (along side gtk and kde libs). My absolute favourite was the virtual-desktop handling with multiple physical monitors in that you can switch between virtual desktops in a screen-independent way. Nothing else I've used has hit the same seamless ease.