In the latest months the enlightenment world has got many updates, but unfortunately the distros available for the FR don't provide the latest versions of the E stack. This is quite normal since they have to share a tested environment, but it makes so hard to use the latest tools (also because the e libs have frequent changes). That's why today I've given to my Toolchain another challenge :P: compiling E from svn (but following the OE bitbakes configurations)...
After some hours, I got it and I was able to run the latest illume code in my phone, but without breaking my Om2008.12 installation. In fact I've installed all my new data to /usr/e17, that's why the default e installation that comes with Om2008.12 is not touched at all. If you want to try this too, you could simply follow these steps: - extract this archive [1] to / (it will automatically put all the needed data in /usr/e17) - editing the /usr/bin/enlightenment_start.oe script by adding the following code before of "exec enlightenment_start $E_PROFILE": export E_PREFIX=/usr/e17 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$E_PREFIX/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export PATH=$E_PREFIX/bin:$PATH (you've also to check that your enlightenment profile is set to "illume" in /etc/enlightenment/default_profile) - mv ~/.e/e/config /dev/null (or to any other location) - Restart your xserver with /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm {stop,start} - Now you may also configure E, from the wrench, to use the "software_16" rendering engine (it causes less quality, but more speed) and a lower framerate value... - if you prefer, you can also use an illume theme coming with SHR or Om2008.12, simply put it in ~/.e/e/themes/illume.edj Ok, now you've a fresh install of Enlightenment running instead of the default one (that can be resumed with a simple "rm -rf /usr/e17"), but nothing more... However I didn't made this effort just to get the newest environment (also if I'd be able to :P), but my final wish was giving a try to ewww and libeWebKit [2]! In few words webkit is going to support the EFL toolkit and Gustavo Barbieri wrote a nice first implementation of this library in the ewww (test?)browser. Since the day I saw the announcement I wanted to try it in my phone, and after that I got webkit compiled I had been able to see ewww in action: [3], [4], [5]! Also if it's very young, it's so nice: very light, fast and supports natively (thanks to the efl) the finger scrolling (that, unfortunately, is quite slow :|)! However, to try this too :P, you have just to extract to / this archive [6] that will put to /usr/e17 the ewww data and the libewebkit library. To run it (I was too lazy for adding a .desktop file :D): DISPLAY=:0 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/e17/lib /usr/e17/ewww I think that this could really become "our" browser in a near future...!!! Soon, I'd like to give a newer try to guarana and enjoy (not forgetting the latest elemetary stuffs!)... :P Bye... ;) [1] http://downloads.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/openmoko/e17-illume%2bsvn20090109.tar.bz2 [2] http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/2008/12/22/webkit-efl-interface-prototype/ [3] http://3v1n0.net/openmoko/ewww-3v1n0.net.png [4] http://3v1n0.net/openmoko/ewww-flickr-Freerunner.png [5] http://3v1n0.net/openmoko/ewww-google.png [6] http://downloads.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/openmoko/ewww-libeWebKit%2bgit20090109.tar.bz2 -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community