[e-users] Enlightenment and current Gnome

[Wouter van Marle]

Dear Enlightenment users,

One of my first installs of Linux, three, four years ago, was of Gnome with highly integrated Enlightenment 15 or so. I don't remember this.

Since about two years Mandrake comes with Sawfish or whatever - and I have tried to install Enlightenment again, but it just doesn't work anymore! Then I tried Enlightenment alone - also not a great success.

So... what to do?
I loved Enlightenment. Looks nice, good configurable, and reasonably fast compared to other window managers.
I don't need a desktop (the icons that is)
I like the taskbar with all my current open windows (I really need something like that),
I also want multiple desktops (can't even switch trough mouse flip to next screen now, seems to be impossible in Sawfish)
I do like some version of the start or gnome's foot menu (now a Mandrake menu, ah whatever) with all my software more or less ordered, and those quick start icons are also really really convenient.
And of course all my current software (90% Gnome, nothing KDE based) must work.
Besides that, a good file manager, anything faster than that slow Nautilus (slow is my only complaint, for the rest it's great, though it is so slow!) will do.

I would like to have a serious look at Enlightenment again.

Is E17 good enough for that?

Or maybe E16.5 with some of the already-stable E17 stuff? Possible?

Thanks!
Wouter.