Enlightenment DR17 for Ubuntu ?

[Henk Postma]

>> It works for me, I'm running it now. I have uploaded the instructions to the
>> wiki:
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>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallingE17Howto
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>> Please feel free to comment/update. Sorry for the bad formatting of the
>> wiki.
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>> - Henk Postma
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> I tried this how-to last night and it's great to have a thrilling new
> desktop environment.
> But I couldn't download the source from sourceforge, so I tried the
> other one listed on the official site of enlightenment and this one is
> supposed to be the most updated (synchronized every 30 min).
>   
Yeah sourceforge is sometimes slow. You may want to become a subscriber, 
apparently the anonymous servers are often overloaded.
> Everything compiles and installs well except emotion which doesn't
> make successfully due to something related to libxine (I guess). But
> that's not a big issue if we have other media player.
>   
I also had the same problem, and just removed "emotion" from the rebuild 
script, and ran it again. Works like a charm (see also the wiki)
> There must be a way to customize
> the enlightenment menu, but I guess at this stage I have to do it by
> dealing with configuration files directly. It would be great if a GUI
> is available for adding/removing applications and etc. (Please tell me
> if you know. thanks). If so, I will leave gnome.
>   
There is, it used to be linked from the configuration menu, but it 
somehow disappeared. Just run "entangle".

You may also want to look at the modules "ibox", "ibar" and "engage", 
which are pictorial menus or task bars or however you want to call them. 
Load them with "enlightenment_remote -module-load "name" if they don't 
appear in the left click on the desktop module menu.

> Enlightenment is really the "ultimate" eye candy, but also very fast.
>
> Best,
> Liu Yu
>   
Glad to hear you're on board :) I run E17 all the time, its fantastic!

- Henk