I'm tingling right now. I finally decided to try out Enlightenment, the new one, E17. I use E16 on my other boxes that I run it on and it looks amazing. Ummmm, how do I put this..... What I'm seeing and experiencing, makes Mac OS X's little pretty toys seem like UGLY.

I took a screen shot, but it doesn't capture the motion. When I move my mouse, I touch the end of the screen and the next desktop appears and a Mc Style pop up tells me I've gone to another one. It's very useful instead of annoying but if it annoyed you you can configure it.

When you look at the screen shot.... Well, the bottom has a spinning E in the left corner as an application menu. This is new from E16 as E16 doesn't HAVE this.

The bottom right you may notice the transparent little icons. You can put anything there.

I want to point out that this is completly default, I haven't done anything to make it look neat or cool. It looks THIS good out of the box so to speak.

Did I mention booting it up was amazing and looks AWESOME? Oh and:

I'M RUNNING THIS ON A CELERON 433 MHz PROCESSOR WITH 192 MBS RAM WITH NO LAGGING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!


When you move your mouse over an app a little golden..... orb almost.... Follows your mouse around for those drunk computing times where you aren't sure what you're clicking on.

This is on my dual boot box of Slackware and Free BSD. I found every E17 package you need for Slackware on:

linuxpackages

I downloaded a few TGZfiles, type installpkg and that was it. I didn't have to do anything else but log out and log back in and it worked without ONE hassle at all.

I highly incourage those of you stuck with POS desktops to try this out. I'm giving this my stamp of approval and it's not even at the release stage yet, this is I think Alpha or Beta, but hasn't given me a problem yet at all, and I think I'm going to have to talk with Pat Volkerding about putting this into Slackware. I backed up the tgz files to my servers so I can keep them for other boxes.

Quit simply this is amzing lookin and works wonderfully.