Elive distro illustrates power, beauty of Enlightenment
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 75.167.149.1]
on February 05, 2008 08:07 PM
"Another small problem came when I tried to use the Elive Essence audio streamer under the audio menu; it didn't connect to the server. Getting themes to work also was a bit of a challenge. From the Elive panel you have to go to Look n' Feel, which I looked for in the main panel with the other settings, but instead it's off alone by itself. Then the menu shows you the Enlightenment 16 and Enlightenment 17 icons, but I had no clue which one I was using. When I chose E16 and went to background selector, it would go back to the start of the Elive Panel. Also I couldn't move the Elive Panel around the desktop, which seems like a small annoyance but is painful when you're trying to see what's behind it."
It looks like some of these problems are related to a lack of familiarity with the Enlightenment WM.
Essence is an Enlightenment app (built on EFL), so I'm not surprised that it doesn't function 100% (everything Enlightenment/EFL is under constant development, with occasional semi-stable releases).
As for themes, there are two ways to take care of that in Elive: The Elive way is to use the ELPanel as you described. The failure was that Elive defaults to E17 (the newer, fancier, but still under heavy development WM) unless you select E16 (the tried-and-true WM) when logging in.
The Enlightenment way is to open a menu (left-click on the desktop) -> configuration -> Theme (I believe this is the same, or at least similar under E16).
As for moving the ELPanel around, I believe that you can drag it from any of its grey/white border. If not, you can always alt+left click-and-drag (pretty much standard shortcut for move window in most window managers).
Besides that, nice article. I've always been intrigued by Enlightenment, and look forward to when(if) they finally release (declare stable) EFL and E17, because when they do, there will definitely be major adoption due to its high eye-candy/low resource nature.
I'm also a fan o Elive, since it is probably the nicest and cleanest way to get E17 up and running on a system, not to mention it makes for a really nice liveCD, besides. ELPanel is really nice, though sometimes confusing as to which options to select to get to what I'm looking for, like you found with trying to change the background. I look forward to better things to come from Thanatermesis, and those that are working on Elive.
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Elive distro illustrates power, beauty of Enlightenment
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 75.167.149.1] on February 05, 2008 08:07 PMIt looks like some of these problems are related to a lack of familiarity with the Enlightenment WM.
Essence is an Enlightenment app (built on EFL), so I'm not surprised that it doesn't function 100% (everything Enlightenment/EFL is under constant development, with occasional semi-stable releases).
As for themes, there are two ways to take care of that in Elive: The Elive way is to use the ELPanel as you described. The failure was that Elive defaults to E17 (the newer, fancier, but still under heavy development WM) unless you select E16 (the tried-and-true WM) when logging in.
The Enlightenment way is to open a menu (left-click on the desktop) -> configuration -> Theme (I believe this is the same, or at least similar under E16).
As for moving the ELPanel around, I believe that you can drag it from any of its grey/white border. If not, you can always alt+left click-and-drag (pretty much standard shortcut for move window in most window managers).
Besides that, nice article. I've always been intrigued by Enlightenment, and look forward to when(if) they finally release (declare stable) EFL and E17, because when they do, there will definitely be major adoption due to its high eye-candy/low resource nature.
I'm also a fan o Elive, since it is probably the nicest and cleanest way to get E17 up and running on a system, not to mention it makes for a really nice liveCD, besides. ELPanel is really nice, though sometimes confusing as to which options to select to get to what I'm looking for, like you found with trying to change the background. I look forward to better things to come from Thanatermesis, and those that are working on Elive.
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