Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release(www.enlightenment.org)
61 pointsby birdculture8 hours ago12 comments
  • BuildTheRobots2 hours ago
    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.

  • arjie6 hours ago
    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.
    • BeetleB6 hours ago
      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.
      • pjmlpan hour ago
        For me the old days in Linux land were more like 1995 - 2005, folks on my degree were already using Enlightenment in 1997.
      • arjie6 hours ago
        As was I. Ran it on a Via pentium-compatible!
        • asveikau4 hours ago
          I was recently randomly thinking of Cyrix. I never had one but in retrospect I think they were better than their reputation. A lot of people thought of it as a cheap knock-off, so lesser quality. I think I thought that way until I got one of the earlier generations of AMD Athlon a few years later, in the 1 GHz era.
  • peri-cl7 hours ago
    Some more discussion,

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

  • perarneng6 hours ago
    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.
  • tapoxi6 hours ago
    It's been in development for 26 years and still isn't 1.0, I wonder what the criteria for that is.
    • amelius5 hours ago
      By the time they reach 1.0 we've long switched from working with GUIs to speaking to AI.
  • pantulis4 hours ago
    It’s great to see the Rasterman himself still doing releases after all these years! Legend!
  • Arubis7 hours ago
    > Restored the Pants module with skirts, kilts, lederhosen, malloc variants, and translations.

    Delightful.

  • bluepoint2 hours ago
    How does it fare with stability? The golden age version (e16?) was fun but would crash regularly.
  • v3ss0n7 hours ago
    I can't believe this crash ridden peice of WM Still exist.. It was horror just to setup something.
    • haolez6 hours ago
      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.
  • serf4 hours ago
    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."

    • zokier4 hours ago
      e has had "experimental" wayland support for over a decade (since 0.20 from 2015).
  • lateralux5 hours ago
    I miss E16
    • itomato4 hours ago
      Some part of me does, and then I go look at all the horrible UX experiments it enabled (mine included) https://ps.ucw.cz/e16/e16-themes-gallery/

      One-shotted script-fu buttons and those gradients haven't aged well.

      • n_l9 minutes ago
        That was a trip down memory lane I did not expect. Thank you!

        I was using the LCARS theme on a tiny Toshiba laptop around 2005. Yes, the UX was incredibly bad, but I loved it, …for about a week :)

      • jraph2 hours ago
        Most of these were probably not very usable, but this feels a bit like all these winamp skins, passion obviously went into these things and that's freaking cool.
    • jraph2 hours ago
      I've read they still maintain it!
  • bottlepalm7 hours ago
    They should use AI to organize the change notes as well.
    • jraph2 hours ago
      Is your concern that they organize the change notes differently (and what do you suggest?), or that they specifically use ai for doing it?

      I'm tired, boss.

      • bottlepalman hour ago
        Currently they’re not organized at all, and yes AI could do it in seconds making that list readable.
    • functionmouse5 hours ago
      Why don't you do it?
      • bottlepalman hour ago
        Sure, give me write access to the website and I will.
        • billiob8 minutes ago
          Send me an email with that content and I'll update the page