LWN: Comments on "The road to Enlightenment"

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elanthis — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:34:19 +0000

That is not written in JavaScript, and hence is not at all accurate. :)

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discomfitor — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:56:13 +0000

Time for some shameless plugs!

Eeze is a device abstraction layer for the EFL which interfaces with udev to provide methods for managing and manipulating devices.

Azy is an HTTP connection management library which specializes in both XML and JSON RPC and can create both servers and clients.

Esskyuehl is an SQL client library which allows asynchronous connection and querying for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Drizzle using the same api.

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dgm — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:56:18 +0000

I think, that was exactly the reason why Metacity was chosen.

<flame>
Let me introduce the first mock up of the coming GNOME 5:

----8<------
gboolean gnome (void)
{
return FALSE;
}
----8<-------

Still an early mock-up, but nearly complete feature-wise!
</flame>

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nix — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:28:42 +0000

Sawfish was also very extensible and flexible... very much unlike Metacity.

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nye — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:31:22 +0000

>I seem to remember that the WM that came before Metacity was Sawfish, not Enlightenment.

Yes, Enlightenment was used before that but wasn't a ubiquitous choice because it was considered absurdly big and bloated when all you wanted was a window manager (how things change).

IIRC Sawfish was an attempt at getting a standard WM that did enough to be useful for nearly everyone but without all the bells, whistles, and gongs which made Enlightenment so heavyweight.

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runciter — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:11:34 +0000

I seem to remember that the WM that came before Metacity was Sawfish, not Enlightenment.

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nye — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:43:42 +0000

>Currently there are various and diverse projects using the EFL as base

Interesting article; I had no idea EFL was being used so widely.

>With the release of EFL 1.0, one can only hope that 2011 might still see an E17 release being announced.

I remember Slashdot had an April fool in 2002 IIRC, claiming that E17 had been released. At the time it was considered so far behind schedule that it looked like it might not ever actually happen.

It looks like the old joke that it E17 would be released shortly after Duke Nukem Forever turned out to be *true* :).

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lfelipe — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:54:24 +0000

For those interested in the current state of WebKit-EFL, one of the developers just wrote about it on his blog:
http://labs.hardinfo.org/mindcrisis/2011/08/04/state-of-w...