Configuring E16 for gnome is not very hard. It took me a whole hour
to "fix it". A few complaints from irate gnome users about the E pager,
and the use of multiple desktops required a little fine tunning of
things. Fairly simple really. I'm not even a E developer.
I suspect that RH will be using a new WM with their next release.
Which kinda makes sense as there is a fair amount of overlap between E
and gnome. It's damn annoying to try to explain to a new user why there
are 2 config tools with simliar configuration options. Or why when they
set their background via E it gets changed at startup. This still
doesn't explain why they didn't go to E16, as the issues exist in both
15, and 16.
Here's all that needs to be done in /usr/share/enlightenment/config:
cp keybindings.gmc.cfg keybindings.cfg
change all instances of
__ACTION __A_GOTO_DESK
to
__ACTION __A_AREA_LINEAR_SET
in keybindings.cfg
edit control.cfg
remove the iconbox:
__ICONBOX __BGN
__NAME DEFAULT
__ORIENTATION __HORIZONTAL
__TRANSPARENCY __OFF
__SHOW_NAMES __ON
__ICON_SIZE 48
__ICON_MODE 2
__SCROLLBAR_SIDE __BAR_BOTTOM
__SCROLLBAR_ARROWS __BOTH
__AUTOMATIC_RESIZE __OFF
__SHOW_ICON_BASE __OFF
__SCROLLBAR_AUTOHIDE __OFF
__END
shutoff the E pager
35c35
< __SHOW_PAGERS __ON
---
> __SHOW_PAGERS __OFF
change number of Desktops to 1
__NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS 1
change Desktop area to 2 2
__DESKTOP_AREA_SIZE 2 2
I've yet to find anything within reason that can't be fixed by editing
files in /usr/share/enlightenment/config. This is a matter of adding a
single patch to the
E16 rpm to create a gnome friendly default.
Tom Gilbert wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'd like to use this forum to attempt to get a straight answer from
> Redhat on this one :)
>
> Redhat 6.2 is shipping with an extremely, painfully out of date version
> of enlightenment (http://www.enlightenment.org)
>
> I work on this wm, and would like an explanation from someone at Redhat
> please. We have worked hard to improve the product, and 0.16.x is a
> league ahead of 0.15.x in terms of useability and performance. We have
> written several gui config tools and lots of documentation.
>
> I have read the explanation on the site, which is basically "we couldn't
> be bothered to configure it, so we stuck with the old version", and am
> rather annoyed as a result :)
>
> The only change that could explain this is the fact the current
> Enlightenment version doesn't come perfectly configured for use with
> GNOME out of the box, but actually requires two config files to be
> changed slightly (wow), and one compile-time option to a supplementary
> package (epplets), whereas the last version was ideally suited out of
> the box.
>
> Mandrake 7.0, Suse 6.3, Debian Potato and Storm Linux all include the
> latest Enlightenment. Redhat obviously couldn't manage it somehow. Is
> that the quality of the staff? Or the attitude?
>
> Since when has Redhat's policy been "if it won't fit out of the box, we
> won't tweak it or ask for it to be tweaked"? Every other rpm out there
> has been tweaked to fit in...
>
> We are an open developer community, and have a mailinglist and website.
> We are approachable. Nobody from redhat approached us about configuring
> Enlightenment to fit in with 6.2 (or more specifically, GNOME).
>
> The 0.16.x documentation includes several FAQs on configuring
> enlightenment for use with GNOME, and it is extremely easy to do. E is a
> very configurable window manager, and many people use it in conjunction
> with GNOME, no problem at all.
>
> I personally made changes to the epplets library and package to include a
> compile-time option to prevent epplets from interfering with
> gnome-session, and e's session management features are totally "take it
> or leave it" optional.
>
> If anyone had asked, I'd have put the package together myself, or at
> least assisted anyone wishing to do so. Instead, a substantially
> inferior package is included, guarenteeing our mailinglist will be full
> of:
> o out of date bug reports
> o feature requests for features we already added
> o complaints about lack of documentation (which is now added)
> o people downloading incompatible (newer) themes
> o blah, blah, blah
>
> Explanation from a Redhat person please? Why were we specifically
> targetted not to get our latest version into the distro? Did we do
> something wrong somehow?
>
> By the way. For those of you wishing to use the best and latest version
> of Enlightenment, you are welcome to compile it from source (available
> from ftp.enlightenment.org) or get a more open minded and free-thinking
> distro :)
>
> And finally, every support request for 0.15.5 that comes from a redhat
> 6.2 user will be forwarded to this list. Thankyou.
>
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