On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 08:41:01PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote: >On 13/10/15 13:46, Markus Törnqvist wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 05:27:56AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>>> The Ubuntu repos only have e17 anyway, so for end-users like me >>> there is no choice. >> Nice, didn't know it's packaged! >I don't think e18/19/20 are available as packages. No, but an official e17 package is better than nothing. >> Umm, I dunno, it builds just fine on Debian Stable. > >Quite possibly, but not on Ubuntu 14.04. Haven't tried 15.04 yet, I'm >waiting for a sacrificial machine to become available. Debian Stable (Jessie) was released on 2015-04-25 so it hasn't gone stale yet. Not a huge surprise an older Ubuntu might not work. I'm a huge fan of VirtualBox for some things, although I guess the world is moving towards Docker images for everything. Whatever. >> https://github.com/mjtorn/e17build is my builder script, it builds >> it under /opt/e19/. >For e17 only? No, it builds e19 just fine. Preferrably if you install the Python dependencies system wide and run with sudo. There are some rough edges, --rebuild is untested etc. Run with sudo it could automate a lot more, but instead it prints out what to do after a build. >> There was e18 in between and e20 is in alpha, so I wouldn't go so far >> as saying that e19 isn't end-user-friendly. I think my glitches came >> from the fact I've been carrying my ~/.e/ around since e17 and >> automatic updates for the conf files didn't exist way back. > >I'm probably being hypercritical; I did my PhD in interface usability, >so I tend to look at everything through a usability microscope. Nice! I don't agree with "The interface is the product" if taken literally, because the interface is the goddamned interface, not the product. Sure it's hugely important and hackjobs like my enlightenment builder barely pass the bar even for me. Despite that, I try to care about making things easy and intuitive to use. Which is why I like enlightenment - I can customize everything to match how my brain works and use it accordingly ;) -- mjt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
