enlightenment

[D. Hageman]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Gene Dascher wrote:

> Why don't you like the idea of turning it into a Desktop Environment?

I just want a simple window manager.  I don't need all that extra stuff.  
If I wanted that - I would be running Gnome or KDE.  The dependency list 
for e 17 is getting ridiculous.  One of my top gripes is the requirement 
of a file system monitoring daemon called efsd that uses fam from SGI.  
fam is RPC daemon that can monitor the filesystem.  My complaints with fam 
is that a) it is RPC which translates into roughly "(R)oot my (PC)" and b) 
to get the full potential out of fam you have to install a kernel driver 
that does magic with vfs calls so fam doesn't have to always be polling 
the filesystem (which you don't want!).  It annoys me that the new 
configuration stuff is stored in hacked up berkely dbs.  If I wanted to 
edit my configuration files with a utility I would go back to windows and 
regedit (or maybe just install linuxconf on my machine).

I would probably consider using e 17 if it had a configure option like 
--just-the-facts-maam or --without-all-the-bullshit or maybe even --KISS.

Don't worry, I have given the same opinion to raster.  He is a stuborn guy 
though and I won't change his mind.  It is always fun to rag on him though 
;-)

> Another desktop choice out there to confuse people?

I have found in general that people are confused as it is and a little 
more confusion doesn't seem to worsen the situation ;-)

>  I really want to try it
> out and see what kind of potential it has.

You should!  It is very pretty!

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