Re: Question about Desktop Environments
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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:57:27AM +1100, Rich Healey wrote:
>
>> Second enlightenment!
>>
>> It's worth noting that enlightenment is not a DE, (they call it a
>> desktop shell), but really it's so much more, because it is whatever you
>> make it.
>>
>> you can run shelfless and have the whole screen to play with, or you can
>> bury yourself in widgets and gadgets, making everything shiny as hell
>> and meaning you only need to glance over to see what you neeed.
>>
>> IMHO it's the most customisable thing out there.
>
> Just not easily. E.g. changing font size requires changing the theme.
> I understand that the new version will allow changing fonts on-the-fly.
>
> I also couldn't figure out how to have icon buttons. E.g., click this
> button to open Konqueror.
>
> I use Icewm.
>
> Doug.
>
Was this meant to be aimed at the list?
Anyway, changing fonts is not something you often need to do, and in
.038 i had an issue with the fonts and one of my favourite themes, it
was simple change to allow the theme to change, and since restarting E
doesn't close anything that you're working on (excepting E dialog boxes)
the "i have to restart" argument hardly applies.
this is one of it's major strengths anyway, if E segfaults (hey, it is
still alpha) you just start E again and carry on, nothing lost.
Also e supports desktop icons, just enable it in the relevant dialog
(maybe in appearance, i forget) then create a .desktop in ~/Desktop ,
there's also a wizard somewhere.. i forget, i'm not really a fan of
desktop icons, i only use them when i'm too lazy to mount media manually.
Regards
Rich Healey
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