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.
I would say in the old days (2001-2002) it was more like a "minimax". It was maximal minimalist. It had really fancy visuals that worked on fairly slow hardware. I was blown away.
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.
That was always my experience as well. I commend the effort, but I have never been able to use it as a daily driver. Gave up like 10 years ago or more.
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.
I would say in the old days (2001-2002) it was more like a "minimax". It was maximal minimalist. It had really fancy visuals that worked on fairly slow hardware. I was blown away.
As was I. Ran it on a Via pentium-compatible!
It's been in development for 26 years and still isn't 1.0, I wonder what the criteria for that is.
By the time they reach 1.0 we've long switched from working with GUIs to speaking to AI.
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.
> Restored the Pants module with skirts, kilts, lederhosen, malloc variants, and translations.
Delightful.
Some more discussion,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50317534 ("Enlightenment 0.28 Released with Many Improvements")
I miss E16
I can't believe this crash ridden peice of WM Still exist.. It was horror just to setup something.
That was always my experience as well. I commend the effort, but I have never been able to use it as a daily driver. Gave up like 10 years ago or more.
They should use AI to organize the change notes as well.
Why don't you do it?