Back when I first used Linux on a 486, Enlightenment provided a fancy looking window manager with similarly-themed utility apps (like a pager). What it did in 1

Back when I first used Linux on a 486, Enlightenment provided a fancy looking window manager with similarly-themed utility apps (like a pager). What it did in 1997, with the incredibly restricted resources available, was impressive. Even on a DX4 100, though, it was just sluggish enough that it got annoying when you were trying to get work done. Future releases added more stuff to build on top of, so there was the tantalising prospect of writing e apps and having them hardware accelerated with OpenGL (I'm sure I remember something about that). Unfortunately, the API looked unfinished, the whole project seemed to constantly be pre-alpha, and the development platform just wasn't attractive to me. I'm not sure what others thought of it, but it certainly doesn't seem to have gathered pace.