Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 upgrade with Enlightenment [E17] installed

I upgraded my Fedora 7 with E17 to Fedora 8. I downloaded the Fedora 8 DVD iso and ran an 'upgrade'. everything worked fine.
no problems as of yet. Enlightenment works fine, and Gnome seems a tad bit better and a tad bit more responsive.

in order what I did:

*make sure  system is fully updated.
*make sure no major errors in the logs or and funky software is installed that will muck it up.
*boot off install DVD select upgrade.

thats it.



-Nex6

powerscripting podcast Mow

http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/powerscripting-podcast-episode-13/

powershell podcast featuring Mow.

-Nex6

More Enlightenment [E17]

was trying to create a Kiosk out of  Enlightenement, which *I* think it would be very well suited for. but at this time the only menu editing
is the ones you have in the configs. and no lock down. I emailed the devs and the menu is not modular its all hard coded in: e_int_menus.c

and if you down load the source, its a huge file.  :)

though I went thru a pretty long email exchange and they seem to be open to something for editing or locking down the menu for kiosk use. we will have to see when and
where it fits in. and I am pretty sure it way down the list...

tho, I think E17 is bvery stable and very responsive and would make for a very fine kiosk. the man challanage is the menu and controlling icons etc. once this is handled
E17 would make for a really fine kiosk.



-Nex6

Installing Enlightenment [E17] On fedora 7

Hi,

I have E17 running pretty stable on Fedora 7, here is how I did it:


Frist here a site with lots of different ways to install it:
http://optics.csufresno.edu/~kriehn/fedora/fedora_files/f7/howto/e17-installation.html

and the one I used is here:
http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe/index.html



-Nex6

PowerShell v2.0 CTP to be released!!

http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/11/02/ctp-ctp-beta.aspx

 

looks like microsoft is releasing a CTP of powershell 2.0 soon, very cool....

 

 

 

-Nex6

Enlightenment E17 keyboard short cuts

hmm,

seems like many of the ones in gnome or standardized ones all work.

alt + tab = flip between windows
ctrl + alt  + arrow keys (left and right) = flip between virtual desktops
ctrl + alt+ d = minimize desktop / show desktop

more to follow, as I explore.  :)


-Nex6

Enlightenment [E17]

First  let me have a disclaimer that this is no review and is just some of my random thoughts.

ok that said:

Let me start by saying wow, No I mean it. the font and window rendering are first class.  I work from Virtual machines alot, and I use Gnome alot but I have also used KDE, FVWM, Blackbox etc.
I always end up back at gnome for some odd reason. Enlightenment E17 is first class, tho its called a lightweight window manager and not a desktop environment like Gnome and KDE. that
in no ways means its a lesser force.  and, its not really trying to copy anyone or anything they (enlightenment team) are just doing there own thing.
the way themes are applied, are first rate the Enlightenment environment was aware of the file when i justed clicked on it.

and, since I tend to work mostly form VMs, how the desktop preforms is a big deal. but I like candy, and decent functionality.

I did get E17 to kinda hang alittle, I was moving xchat from inside the pager from virtual desktop 1 to Virtual desktop 2, and the window redraw start going crazy. the good thing was it never crashed and toke down the entire desktop. I was able to fire up xterm and restart.

anther thing I like is the work flow, and the snappiness of E17, it feels snappy, and modern. when you move a window you don't really see the window and font redraws.

overall, pretty good. will post more about E17 as I come across it.



-Nex6