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<p>The Enlightenment Window Manager was first released in 1997 by Carsten "Rasterman" Haitzler</p>
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<span class="contentmain">
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<p> It's release revolutionized the face of desktops on UNIX platforms and beyond,
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featuring a more graphically stimulating enviroment than ever previously seen on a conventional
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<p> Its release revolutionized the face of desktops on UNIX platforms and beyond,
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featuring a more graphically stimulating environment than ever previously seen on a conventional
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desktop. Since that time the window manager has been emulated and has driven the graphical appeal
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we see on desktops everywhere. In 2000, the latest major release occured with the release of DR16.0,
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a release that remains in heavy usage today. In 2003 Kim "kwo" Woelders took over
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</a>
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</center>
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<p>The Enlightenment DR16 Window Manager is a robust, flexable, highly configurable, graphically
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rich yet unobtrusive desktop enviroment for the X11 windowing system. It is fully themable and
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<p>The Enlightenment DR16 Window Manager is a robust, flexible, highly configurable, graphically
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rich yet unobtrusive desktop environment for the X11 windowing system. It is fully themable and
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easily configured. There are a wide range of configuration options to suite any taste. DR16
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provides an innovate way of managing applications found no where else, allowing for not only virtual
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desktops, but also multiple desktops (a seperate set of virtual desktops). A unique snapshoting pager
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allows for easy management of application placement and even will zoom on on mouse-over of a
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desktops, but also multiple desktops (a separate set of virtual desktops). A unique snapshoting pager
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allows for easy management of application placement and even will zoom on mouse-over of a
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window in the pager for easily locating applications. Support exists for up to 32 multiple desktops,
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and virtual desktops up to 8x8 in size! (Thats 2048 possible desktops!) Standard options such as
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focus settings and autoraise are extremely configurable to fit your individual tastes. Several
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</a>
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</center>
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<p>The menu system is flexable, providing easy access to applications, theme selection,
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<p>The menu system is flexible, providing easy access to applications, theme selection,
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documentation, settings, and background selection. DR16 uniquely allows background selection
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to be done from the main menu system using thumbnailed views of the background providing a
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quick and easy way to change wallpaper. In addition, desktop "FX" exist that can
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</a>
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</center>
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<p>A simple group of flat text files allow for easy editing of user appliation menus,
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<p>A simple group of flat text files allow for easy editing of user application menus,
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including the ability to create hierarchical user menus to suite your various needs. At first
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startup DR16 will even scan for your KDE and GNOME menus to add an application menu for them. </p>
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<p>Standard mouseless features such as tab switching exist, but we've built on even more than that.
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Virtual desktops can be navigated using the keyboard arrow keys and nearly anything including application
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launching can be keybound via e16bindings making DR16 an excellent choice for users who want a graphically
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rich enviroment that doesn't require constant intervention of the mouse. </p>
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rich environment that doesn't require constant intervention of the mouse. </p>
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<center>
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<a href="http://enlightenment.org/i/dr16-kde31.png" target="_self">
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</a>
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</center>
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<p>A built in help system called "eDox" provides an excellent resource for learning the
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<p>A built-in help system called "eDox" provides an excellent resource for learning the
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wide variety of diffrent methods of interaction and configuration. Graphical Tool Tips can also be
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enabled to assist normal usage.</p>
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</center>
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<p>Enlightenment DR16 integrates well with both GNOME and KDE. Replace the default window
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mangers for each with Enlightenment and you'll have the power to leverage the best of GNOME and
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managers for each with Enlightenment and you'll have the power to leverage the best of GNOME and
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KDE at the same time, while enjoying the superior windowing interface that Enlightenment provides.</p>
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<p>EESH, the Enlightenment Shell, allows for complete remote control of the window manager and easy scripting.</p>
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</a>
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</center>
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<p>Enlightenment DR16 is highly portable, with binaries avalible for or testing done on all
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<p>Enlightenment DR16 is highly portable, with binaries available for or testing done on all
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Linux platforms, Solaris X86 and Sparc, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS/2 and
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more.</p>
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<h1>Enlightenment DR17</h1>
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<p>Enlightenment 0.17 is the next generation of UNIX graphical environments. It is not
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just a window manager, but it is also a desktop shell. A desktop shell means, a window
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manager plus a file manager, plus configuration utilitys all in one. They are not
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just a window manager, but it is also a desktop shell. A desktop shell means, a window
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manager plus a file manager, plus configuration utilities all in one. They are not
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separated as usual. Now, let's take a closer look at all E17 features.</p>
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<p>Enlightenment is fast. No, really. It's fast. It is known to run on very slow
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you can control how fast you want it by using it's Performance configuration panel to
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change the cache settings and more.</p>
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<p>The high performance does not mean that there is no eye candy. There is eye candy that you
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<p>The high performance does not mean that there is no eye-candy. There is eye-candy that you
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have never seen before. Starting from the animated boot screen, to continue with the all
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animations and effects that themes could provide, to end up with fancy animated backgrounds.
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But not some huge .GIF files, but really nice animations. Every virtual desktop (at the moment
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look different, with different effects, look and feel and animations.</p>
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<p>As we already mentioned, E17 provides a file manager as well. Of the time of writing, it is
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not completed and is in active development (as E17 as a whole itself), but after it is finished
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it will be a very nice, configurable and eye candy. Even right now, you can do the basic things
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not completed and is in an active development (as E17 as a whole itself), but after it is finished
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it will be a very nice, configurable and eye-candy. Even right now, you can do the basic things
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with it – browse, copy, move, delete files. It will provide thumbnails for your pictures and
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will be able to open your files with the coresponding application of your choice.</p>
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will be able to open your files with the corresponding application of your choice.</p>
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<p>E17 is highly configurable. Currently it has a nice configuration panel with dialogs for all
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kinds of things. You can change your wallpaper or your theme, your fonts, your screen resolution,
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as well as transport stored data to other locations without loss.</p>
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<p>Eet has very few requirements. On UNIX, beyond the normal libc and system
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compiling tools and headers, you will need libjpeg (also know as jpeglib) and its
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compiling tools and headers, you will need libjpeg (also known as jpeglib) and its
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headers and build packages, as well as zlib (libz) and its headers and build
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packages.</p>
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<p>The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) are a collection of libraries that make up the foundation
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of the DR17 window manager. While their original intent was solely to support the window manager, the libraries
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quickly took on a life of their own, which is a contributing factor to the delays of the window manager itself.
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These libraries are so powerful, flexable, and easy to use that they present a strong platform on which to
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These libraries are so powerful, flexible, and easy to use that they present a strong platform on which to
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develop nearly any graphical application you could think of.</p>
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<p>The EFL begins with Evas, our canvas library. Because Evas is built
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on several diffrent selectable engines (Linux FrameBuffer, DirectFB,
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on several different selectable engines (Linux FrameBuffer, DirectFB,
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X11, OpenGL/OpenGL-ES, QTopia, etc) the platform is
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extremely portable, which translates thru to all of the libraries
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extremely portable, which translates thru to all of the libraries
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built on top of it. Ecore is a modular convience library that in its
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base provides timers, callback functionality, and loop management for
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event handling. Ecore's various modules can simplify the setup of an
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use with Evas (Ecore_Evas), manage IPC (Ecore_IPC), manage BSD Sockets
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(Ecore_Con), management of the FrameBuffer (Ecore_FB), and more.
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Because Ecore can simplify so many tasks that are used in conjuction
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with Evas it has lived up to its name as the core componant of nearly
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with Evas it has lived up to its name as the core component of nearly
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any EFL application.</p>
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<p>Eina centralises data structures and memory handling functions beyond
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what system "mallocs" provide.</p>
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<p>Edje provides a revolutionary method of absstacting every aspect of
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<p>Edje provides a revolutionary method of abstracting every aspect of
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your interface from the application itself. By passing signals
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between the interface and the application all communication is done in
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an interface neutral way. No longer are "themes" simple changes
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of pixmaps over a fixed area. Using Embryo we can provide scripting
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ability to the interface componant itself to harness even more power
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and flexability.</p>
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and flexibility.</p>
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<p>Elementary ties things together in a touchscreen finger-friendly
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widget set. And there is much more.</a>
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<p>Below is a diagram of how the various componants of the EFL fit together. Because
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<p>Below is a diagram of how the various components of the EFL fit together. Because
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of complexity of the libraries and the fact that so many libraries can be used
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independant of other EFL libraries we have a diagram alittle more complex than
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independant of other EFL libraries we have a diagram a little more complex than
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your standard block diagram.</p>
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Over the course of the project there have been many users, communities and
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corportations that have supported the Enlightenment project. We'd like to
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corporations that have supported the Enlightenment project. We'd like to
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extend our thanks and gratitude to the following groups for all their support.
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<p><a href="http://osuosl.org/" title="OSUOSL">OSUOSL</a> are donating the
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required hosting and bandwidth to support our servers. Without this support
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we'd wouldn't be able to provide the needed anonymous SVN access and
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we wouldn't be able to provide the needed anonymous SVN access and
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infrastructure to run the project or run our website and more.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.valinux.co.jp/" title="Va Linux">VA Linux Systems
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Japan</a> provided developer support allowed some time to be spent working on E.</p>
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Japan</a> provided developer support allowed some time to be spent working on E.</p>
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Some applications also have automatically generated documentation. It is
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generated daily from SVN likee the EFL documentation above. Just
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generated daily from SVN like the EFL documentation above. Just
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select the documentation you desire on the right.
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