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Gnome and KDE have both embraced flat designs but the Enlightenment community seems to still do some rather "original" decorations [1]. They do look rather retr

by meekins 10y ago

Gnome and KDE have both embraced flat designs but the Enlightenment community seems to still do some rather "original" decorations [1]. They do look rather retro these days though. https://exchange.enlightenment.org/themeGroup/show/24 https://exchange.enlightenment.org/themeGroup/show/24

flukus 10y ago
Is enlightenment still active and still the most hackable?
- meekins 10y ago
  I cannot comment on hackability since I've only used it for a few months several years ago but it looks to be under active development [1]. https://git.enlightenment.org/core/enlightenment.git https://git.enlightenment.org/core/enlightenment.git
- notalaser 10y ago
  It's under active development, yes. It has seen a major rewrite of a lot of foundation libraries after 0.16. The artwork is not of the same quality, I guess, probably because a lot of artists have moved on, but it's a very solid environment, and the libraries that have been developed as part of the project are great. They're used in Tizen: https://www.tizen.org/events/presentations/tizen-native-display-layer-efl-architecture-and-usage https://www.tizen.org/events/presentations/tizen-native-disp... ; Carsten Haitzler (rasterman) has been working at Samsung for a few years now. (Or at least he had been working for a few years when I read the presentation; I think he still does, but I'm not sure)
  - digi_owl 10y ago
    For a guy that has in the past railed against the Red Hat/Gnome people, Rasterman seems to have become very corporate in recent years...
zanny 10y ago
Note that KDE still ships at least 4 desktop themes on any reasonable distro, including "MS Windows 9x" that still has a similar look to these screenshots. You can still use the KDE 3 and 4 themes (Plastik and Oxygen) throughout Plasma 5.
- makomk 10y ago
  They're not exactly bug-free though. For example, when I enabled the Oxygen theme and adjusted the taskbar height to roughly where I had it in KDE 4, all the text became about three pixels high for no reason. I think there were other problems too.

by meekins 10y ago

flukus 10y ago

Is enlightenment still active and still the most hackable?

meekins 10y ago
I cannot comment on hackability since I've only used it for a few months several years ago but it looks to be under active development [1]. https://git.enlightenment.org/core/enlightenment.git https://git.enlightenment.org/core/enlightenment.git
notalaser 10y ago
It's under active development, yes. It has seen a major rewrite of a lot of foundation libraries after 0.16. The artwork is not of the same quality, I guess, probably because a lot of artists have moved on, but it's a very solid environment, and the libraries that have been developed as part of the project are great. They're used in Tizen: https://www.tizen.org/events/presentations/tizen-native-display-layer-efl-architecture-and-usage https://www.tizen.org/events/presentations/tizen-native-disp... ; Carsten Haitzler (rasterman) has been working at Samsung for a few years now. (Or at least he had been working for a few years when I read the presentation; I think he still does, but I'm not sure)
- digi_owl 10y ago
  For a guy that has in the past railed against the Red Hat/Gnome people, Rasterman seems to have become very corporate in recent years...

zanny 10y ago

Note that KDE still ships at least 4 desktop themes on any reasonable distro, including "MS Windows 9x" that still has a similar look to these screenshots. You can still use the KDE 3 and 4 themes (Plastik and Oxygen) throughout Plasma 5.

makomk 10y ago
They're not exactly bug-free though. For example, when I enabled the Oxygen theme and adjusted the taskbar height to roughly where I had it in KDE 4, all the text became about three pixels high for no reason. I think there were other problems too.