Re: [TCLUG:9131] enlightenment 0.16

["John R. Sheets" <dusk@ravendusk.org>]

On Oct 12, 1999, Christopher McKinley <lamfada@lugh.net> wrote:
> 
> 2) GNOME panel and gmc home dir link are no longer sticky, and there is
> no obvious mechanism to make them sticky.

How do you mean?  I'm running E CVS from 5 days ago, and GNOME CVS from
a week or two ago, and the panel works fine for me.  It appears on every
desktop.  If you Alt+Right Click on the panel, you'll get a menu which
includes "Stick/Unstick".

It might be a problem with startup order.  If the panel starts up before
the (GNOME-compliant) window manager, it will try to manage itself,
rather than taking hints from E.  So make sure E is running before the
panel.

> 3) Epplets: I have seen references to them, and descriptions, and
> supposedly some exist, but where the hell can I find them?

Can't, yet.  They are very, very new.  Kind of a post-0.16/pre-0.17
feature.  Something should be out pretty soon, though.

> 4) Raster and Mandrake are reinventing the wheel.  I like the wheel,
> though, but it can not totally replace GNOME or KDE yet (Epplets?).

Depends on which wheel you're talking about.  GNOME sometimes
tresspasses in WM territory, just as E trespasses in application
territory at times.

And don't forget that GNOME is a desktop environment on one hand, but on
the other, it is also a development environment.  E will never provide
an API for application development.

Was there a specific wheel you're concerned about?

John