On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:03:35 -0000 "Martin White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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(B> Hello people,
(B>
(B> I've finally found the time to sign up to this list and figured i'd pop on
(B> and say a quick (or not so!) hello. I'm one of those people that used to use
(B> Enlightenment way back in (19??, dunno, 95 maybe, 97?!). I seem to remember
(B> slackware 3.2(ish) with E12 or E13 although i guess that could be way off,
(B> it's irrelevent though. Then I drifted off for years favouring KDE and have
(B> rediscovered E just recently.
(B
(Bgreat! welcome back! :)
(B
(B> Over the last 6 months i've been working on a project for work that has
(B> meant having to develop for AIX so having a linux partition on my laptop has
(B> been the easiest way to go. Haven't got to cross-compiling, maybe i'll get
(B
(Bwell- you can just compile natively ON AIX - it might be a lot less pain :)
(B
(B> to that one day. Anyway, i was nearing the end of a vital stage two weeks
(B> ago when the worst that could probably happen did and my laptop died.
(B
(Bouch! poor laptop :(
(B
(B> When i rebuilt it i decided that as i was using thunderbird and firefox for
(B> the usual things and netbeans for java development, it seemed about the only
(B> thing keeping me in kde was kdevelop (for my C/C++ development) and seeing
(B> as i knew there were alternatives to that i figured i'd had enough of
(B> installing gigabytes of crap to get a desktop environment and tried going
(B> back to E.
(B>
(B> Things went well and i'm very impressed, although i was still at the
(B> firefighting, "get my laptop back and the code out of the door" stage until
(B> the end of last week. My current setup is Mandrake 10.1 (i was already a
(B> silver club member, so it seemed sensible to stick with it) on a Dell
(B> Latitude D600 (wireless and everything working nice). Enlightenment
(B> E16.7.something. I pinched the blue curve backdrop from the Mandrake install
(B> and am using the 023glass theme (i think).
(B>
(B> Try as i might though i just couldn't get used to living without a file
(B> manager. This was dissapointing t me, but i guess the years of KDE have
(B> rubbed off on me.
(B
(Bwe are moving to fix that :) so be patient... :)
(B
(B> So this afternoon i went down the Evidence route.
(B
(Baaah - u found it :)
(B
(B> Things were a little shaky with the source compile and in the end i gave up
(B> with that as i shouve been writing code not compiling other peoples really.
(B> I don't recall off my head what the sticking point was but i decided to give
(B> the SUSE RPMs a shot just for the hell of it, i could always back it out
(B> afterall.
(B>
(B> So, I installed about 7 RPMs (ecore, edb, edje, eet, embryo, evas, evidence
(B> itself) and it seems to be working a treat. Nice one!!
(B
(Bthe "path of least resistance" :)
(B
(B> Did i ought to be overly concerned about the fact that they were SUSE RPMs?
(B> I guess not since it's working, but i don't really want to hit a problem
(B> further down the line on this work machine :) I think i have to use --nodeps
(B> on 1 of the rpms, but that was one of the very first so i probably ended up
(B> resolving the dependencies later on anyway.
(B>
(B> Only question relating to Evidence that i have is can i reduce the size of
(B> the icons? They're beautiful and i really like it, but they're a bit large
(B> for my liking.
(B
(Bme too - but evidence right now is being worked on so i'm not too concerned :)
(B
(B> And finally, is there much more to getting E17 to work seeing as all of the
(B> above RPMs were from E17 iirc? Can the two coexist? E16 & 17 that is? If i
(B> have to remove E16 then i'd be reluctant for now, as i say, this is a work
(B> laptop and i can't spare even half a day if it goes completely pear shaped.
(B> At least i'd have to be fairly creative with a few excuses!!
(B
(Be17 itself changes quickly - and the libs supporting it change to match - you
(Bwill find the only sane way to keep up is to install from CVS... or...
(B
(Bhttp://enlightenment.freedesktop.org
(B
(Bhas tarballs :)
(B
(B> Anyway, plenty enough ramblings from me :)
(B>
(B> I figured i'd had such a pleasurable time rediscovering Enlightenment lately
(B> though that i'd share some praise to Rasterman et. al. and not just make it
(B> all questions!!
(B
(Bglad to see you're happy :)
(B
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